On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 23:30, Bob Stia wrote:
> Been struggling for months now trying to make my scanner work. An
> Artec A6000 Plus. Supported. Couldn't make the Artec supplied scsi
You should have already gotten a solution to your actual problem, but
I'm going to suggest heresy here and recommend a piece of commercial
software to drive your scanner:
Buy a copy of "viewscan" for, I believe $40. It is absolutely the BEST
scanning software I've ever used, supports a HUGE number of scanners and
best of all, is cross-platform between Windows, Mac and LINUX! Plus
once you buy the key, it works on ALL subsequent releases of the
software. And he updates it quite frequently with new scanner support
and new features.
I've tried getting SANE to work with my scanner (HP Photosmart photo
scanner) and the time I spent just getting SANE to completely fail to do
anything at all would have been worth the $40 if I had just paid it up
front...
The fellow writing it is a pro-mateur photographer and software
developer, so it's explicitly designed as a tool for photographers. If
you're just trying to scan polaroids, it may not really be worth the
money, but if you want the highest-quality scans possible, with
automatic adjustments of all kinds of image quality parameters (but with
the ability to go in and manually fine-tune) then this is the software
for you!
My favorite features are the bulk scanning (my scanner is a photo
scanner with the ability to scan negatives - Viewscan will let me scan
the entire strip all at once) and the "save raw scan" functionality
which is a bit odd, but very cool. If your scanner supports, say 32-bit
or 36-bit scanning modes, as most do nowadays, the output image still
needs to be 24-bits, so those 32 or 36 bits need to be filtered down to
24 before the image gets saved. Most scanner software does this
automatically and you have only a little choice in how that
bit-reduction happens. With Viewscan, you have the ability to save
those "raw" scan bits to your hard drive, and then treat that "raw" file
as a new scan over and over. So if you don't like the settings for the
first time you do the scan, change the settings and point the software
at the "raw" scan file and it acts like it re-scans the image and
outputs the new 24-bit file with the new settings. It's hard to explain
but incredibly useful.
I'm not related to Mr. Hamrick in any way other than I'm really
impressed with the software.
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