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Vuescan linux software#
For this reason, we have created a list of the 10 best document scanning software for Linux.
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On the other hand, Linux has very few options that are worth mentioning. Besides, they have some powerful and premium graphics tools that make the thing a lot easier. Most of the printing and scanning-related tools work best with Windows and Mac. Likewise, they have wireless technology and color display for making things easier. The scanning hardware is also getting a modern refresh to cope with the situation. That said, this is more than adequate for now – the image below is a scan of one of my first pinhole images from a year & a half ago in London, scaled down from 5000×5000 pixels.Though smartphone cameras declined the usage of scanners a bit, there is still a great demand for scanning tools for computers. So I’m stuck at 2400 DPI for while, until I talk myself into shelling out for a new desktop with 4 GB of RAM.
Vuescan linux full#
The only remaining problem is that if I try to scan at the full 4800 DPI my laptop (with 768 MB of RAM) goes into a swap death spiral, because the combination of the raw RGB scan, the infrared scan and the post-processing requires on the order of 1 GB of memory for a single medium format slide. With this all installed, I now have a choice of 3 programs to do scanning with, Sane, IScan, and VueScan. The firmware itself is closed source & proprietry, but they do provide both a Linux version of their scanner software ( IScan) and a SANE backend, under the GPL (+ an exception to allow them to deal with the firmware loading library). Fortunately it turns out that Epson are a (reasonably) Linux friendly company, providing a Linux version of their scanner software for a large number of distros.
Vuescan linux drivers#
I re-checked the release notes for VueScan, where-upon I discovered the small print – its only supported if you have the Epson drivers installed, because it needs a firmware loaded. I was mildly worried that I had a dud unit now. Upgraded to the latest version of VueScan, still nothing. Odd, because various web postings claimed it worked with both Sane & VueScan. I plugged it in, added its USB vendor & product IDs to hotplug usermaps, re-plugged it, and fired up VueScan. Getting it working under Linux was a little bit of a roller-coaster ride. So I went looking for a medium format scanner and finally settled on the Epson Perfection 4490 which was well rated by a number of photographic magazines, and a snip at only $200 – a small fraction the price of the dedicated Nikon film scanner when I bought it back in London. This was all well and good, but I’ve got and ever increasing number of medium format negatives & slides taken with my Zero Image 2000 pinhole camera which won’t fit in the Nikon. If you’ve got a scanner which isn’t supported by Sane, then its worth checking it out.
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VueScan is the first piece of commercial software I’ve bought in years, and I can say it is well worth the $80 for their professional edition which provides lifetime upgrades. While it is not supported by the open source Sane software, the cross-platform VueScan software does a fanatastic job of driving it, even including support for the ICE (infrared) cleaning. Posted: April 15th, 2006 | Filed under: Photography | 2 Comments »įor a couple of years now I’ve been using a Nikon Coolscan V for scanning my 35mm negatives & slides into digital format.