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Which Scanner Comes With The Best software?
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Senior User
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Lawrence, KS
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I have about $150 budget for a scanner for home use. What scanner would you recommend given that the quality of the software will be weighted pretty heavily in the desicion process?
I bought and HP-Scanjet but returned it the next day because it had the crappiest software I ever seen -seriously. Hard to believe HP sunk so low in that sense. It's shame becuase the hardware was actually pretty nice.
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iMac 17" G4 800MHZ & 768 SDRAM
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Pinching up a storm on the Star Destroyer
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"If it's broke, you choke."
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Senior User
Join Date: Oct 2000
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ok that narrows it down somewhat. Now between a Canon and an Epson, which would you go for? I've seen the Canon scanning software and its decent (not great) but don't know anything about the Epson one. Any comments?
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Grizzled Veteran
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I KNOW the Epsons are good but I have HEARD good things about the Canon. I can recommend epson because I have used them and it is totally fine.
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Senior User
Join Date: Oct 2000
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Great, thanks for your help. I'll get one or the other this weekend.
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Youngsville, NC
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I bought a low end Canon (LiDe 30), and I suppose the software was decent. It was a photoshop plugin which was kinda nice, all kinds of tools right there once you scan it in...
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Boston
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I've owned a number of scanners (Canon, Epson, and now a Microtek) and always ran into problems with the software. Simple tasks such as scanning a picture at 300dpi, into a TIFF file, stored at XX location, seemed different in every scanner. The vendor supplied software acted as an abstraction layer and made things more complex then they should have been.
After searching around, I ended up picking up VueScan by Hamrick software:
VueScan
You can download a trial version to test it out. The nice thing is that the software supports a large majority of the scanners out there (and seems to be faster at scanning then some vendor software). It is multiplatform and runs on OSX, OS9, Linux & Windows. The consistent interface is nice, especially when switching platforms.
BTW- After scanning over 1000 images, you don't really need anything over 300dpi, unless you are scanning negatives. Check out Hamrick's site for a list of recommended scanners at various price ranges. You could get away with a cheap $80 scanner if you are scanning nothing more then pictures. Don't believe the DPI hype. Scanning an image at 4000DPI won't make it look any better, you'll just precisely capture the film grain and end up with a 250mb file that is useless.
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