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What is a good scanning program?
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| kopn@bk.ru 2005-07-28, 7:14 pm |
| Hello
What is a good scanning program for my HP ScanJet 5p for Windows XP? HP
PrecisionScan Pro 2.03 is good, but gives a pink tint to my photos. HP
DeskScan 2.9 writes that there is an error in comunicating with the
scanner. Windows Scanner Wizard has too small preview windows to adjust
the image.
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| iehsmith 2005-07-28, 7:14 pm |
| On 7/28/05 9:04 AM, kopn@bk.ru uttered:
> Hello
> What is a good scanning program for my HP ScanJet 5p for Windows XP? HP
> PrecisionScan Pro 2.03 is good, but gives a pink tint to my photos. HP
> DeskScan 2.9 writes that there is an error in comunicating with the
> scanner. Windows Scanner Wizard has too small preview windows to adjust
> the image.
In years passed I had heard good things about SilverFast. I couldn't afford
to purchase the software specific for my scanner at the time, so I cannot
endorse it personally. I believe now that they have software that is
non-specific to make/model of scanner (not sure). Anyway, I think it's worth
looking into. I've just looked them up again since seeing your post, but
haven't read it. Apparently several different levels of software.
http://www.silverfast.com/overview/en.html
hth,
inez
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| "iehsmith" <inezhsmithspammenot@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> On 7/28/05 9:04 AM, kopn@bk.ru uttered:
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> In years passed I had heard good things about SilverFast. I couldn't
afford
> to purchase the software specific for my scanner at the time, so I cannot
> endorse it personally. I believe now that they have software that is
> non-specific to make/model of scanner (not sure). Anyway, I think it's
worth
> looking into. I've just looked them up again since seeing your post, but
> haven't read it. Apparently several different levels of software.
> http://www.silverfast.com/overview/en.html
>
> hth,
> inez
>
I use SilverFast (different manufacturer and different scanner) ... and I'm
(relatively) satisfied.
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| Ira Solomon 2005-07-28, 7:14 pm |
| Hi:
While I like Silverfast, I would suggest you try VueScan first.
It is much cheaper and one copy works on all supported scanners.
Yours is on the list.
Go to:
http://www.hamrick.com/
Free trial is available.
Good luck
Ira Solomon
On 28 Jul 2005 07:04:24 -0700, kopn@bk.ru wrote:
>Hello
>What is a good scanning program for my HP ScanJet 5p for Windows XP? HP
>PrecisionScan Pro 2.03 is good, but gives a pink tint to my photos. HP
>DeskScan 2.9 writes that there is an error in comunicating with the
>scanner. Windows Scanner Wizard has too small preview windows to adjust
>the image.
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| Vuescan, it is way better than manufacturers / supplied with stuff.
"Ira Solomon" <isolomon@solomonltd.com> wrote in message
news:hljie19btk6786tf3f1v4538ulr7c88hgi@4ax.com...
> Hi:
> While I like Silverfast, I would suggest you try VueScan first.
> It is much cheaper and one copy works on all supported scanners.
> Yours is on the list.
> Go to:
> http://www.hamrick.com/
>
> Free trial is available.
>
> Good luck
>
> Ira Solomon
> On 28 Jul 2005 07:04:24 -0700, kopn@bk.ru wrote:
>
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| kopn@bk.ru 2005-08-02, 7:14 am |
| Thank you all!
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| kopn@bk.ru 2005-08-02, 7:14 am |
| Can Vuescan save to compressed group 4 tif, gif, png?
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| Bart van der Wolf 2005-08-02, 7:14 pm |
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<kopn@bk.ru> wrote in message
news:1122971838.933817.141410@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Can Vuescan save to compressed group 4 tif, gif, png?
VueScan saves to (single/multipage)TIFF (1-bit B/W, 8/16-bit gray,
24/48-bit RGB, 64-bit RGBI, 16-bit InfraRed), JPEG, PDF, OCR-text
file, and BMP-index file. Multiple file types, e.g. TIFF and JPEG, can
be saved at the same time, with different sizes if needed.
Compression of 16-bit/channel scan files often *increases* the file
size. VueScan will in those cases default to uncompressed TIFF. You
can manually switch compression on, but I don't know which type of
compression it is.
Since VueScan is not an image editor but a scanner driver, it attempts
to extract and save as much information from the original as possible.
You can always throw away information later by converting to GIF,
probably after down-sampling. PNG is generally less accepted than
TIFF, thus it's not supported, you can always losslessly convert to it
in an image editor.
Bart
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| Bart van der Wolf wrote:
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> <kopn@bk.ru> wrote in message
> news:1122971838.933817.141410@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
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> VueScan saves to (single/multipage)TIFF (1-bit B/W, 8/16-bit gray,
> 24/48-bit RGB, 64-bit RGBI, 16-bit InfraRed), JPEG, PDF, OCR-text file,
> and BMP-index file. Multiple file types, e.g. TIFF and JPEG, can be
> saved at the same time, with different sizes if needed.
>
> Compression of 16-bit/channel scan files often *increases* the file
> size. VueScan will in those cases default to uncompressed TIFF. You can
> manually switch compression on, but I don't know which type of
> compression it is.
>
> Since VueScan is not an image editor but a scanner driver, it attempts
> to extract and save as much information from the original as possible.
> You can always throw away information later by converting to GIF,
> probably after down-sampling. PNG is generally less accepted than TIFF,
> thus it's not supported, you can always losslessly convert to it in an
> image editor.
>
> Bart
I believe that the TIFF compression is LZW, but I'm not sure. If I
remember right a saved one of those in Photoshop wants to resave as a
TIFF with LZW. Of course, that isn't proof, but an indicator.
Clyde
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