OT: scanning

[Bruce Easton]

On 10/29/10 2:27 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010, Fairlight wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 06:06:38AM -0700, after drawing runes in goat's blood,
>> Bob Rasmussen cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
> ...
>>> The interface itself is rather clunky, and has to be integrated with the
>>> calling application at a very low level, in order to provide event
>>> feedback. Every scanner is different. There are many possible features in
>>> the scanner, so there's some discovery that has to go on. The standard is
>>> vague in some areas, and some scanners don't appear to follow it
>>> precisely.
>> That's a shocker.  :)
> I have been using the VueScan software on OS X, and have been
> very satisfied with it.  The author's support response has been
> excellent, it supports many different scanners very well, is
> updated frequently with new scanner support, and is available on
> many different platforms.
>
> 	http://www.hamrick.com/
>
> ...
>
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I used VueScan briefly for a demo period on OS X and it was the only 
software
that I could find that would work with an old Canon scanner (that I 
occasionally
still use from Windows).

Bruce