What is a good scanning program?

On 7/28/05 9:04 AM, 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

"iehsmith" wrote in message

On 7/28/05 9:04 AM, 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

I use SilverFast (different manufacturer and different scanner) … and I’m (relatively) satisfied.

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, 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.

Vuescan, it is way better than manufacturers / supplied with stuff. "Ira Solomon" wrote in message

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, 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.

Thank you all!

Can Vuescan save to compressed group 4 tif, gif, png?

SilverFast SE is for HP ScanJet 4p, not 5p.
http://www.silverfast.com/sf-download/se/en.html

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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

Bart van der Wolf wrote:

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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

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