It's big, it's expensive and it has some impressive specifications, but is it any good? Review Mar 26 Review Mar 27 Epson Perfection 4990 PhotoĪt the top end of Epson's range of home and office scanners sits the Perfection 4990 Photo. The fact it happens to be the best photo scanner we've ever tested is an attractive bonus. They have no qualms about this the V700 is primarily for scanning film. Bucking this trend is Epson whose latest scanner, the Perfection V700 Photo, is aimed squarely at these loyal devotees. With the ever increasing popularity of digital photography, it wouldn't be foolish to assume that manufacturers no longer care about the loyal battalions of amateur photographers still dedicated to film. Review Jun 01 Epson Perfection V700 Photo The i40 steers a different course: as an upright sheet-fed model it has a petite footprint, and it's capable of scanning 1,000 pages per day. Offices with little desk space but heavy document scanning requirements find that most flatbed scanners are just too big - and very often not designed to be carthorses. Novices will be well served by the simplicity and low cost of this unit. This really is a bargain offering and one of the cheapest scanners on the market at present. Way, way down at the bottom of Hewlett Packard's lineup of scanners sits their Scanjet 2400. Review Jul 04 Hewlett-Packard Australia Scanjet 2400 If you want a fast way of scanning documents, the Scanjet 5590 is a good solution. For photo scanning and film scanning, the results were less impressive. For the rapid scanning of monochrome documents and conversion to editable text files, the automatic document feeder enabled scanner does an excellent job. The Hewlett-Packard Scanjet 5590, predominantly aimed at home office or small businesses, offers a mixed set of results. Review Oct 10 Hewlett-Packard Australia Scanjet 5590 The HP ScanJet N6310 is a flatbed document scanner Review Jan 22 Epson Perfection V200 PhotoĮpson's low-cost V200 scans photos and film into winning images on the quick. Review Jun 15 Hewlett-Packard Australia ScanJet N6310 From there, you can crop and/or clean up the pages more before you save it to PDF.But the Canon CanoScan LiDE 200 has some drawbacks, including skimpy OCR functions and the inability to scan transmissive items (such as film). Once you tweak your settings to your liking, click Scan and you will have all your pages loaded in the app. You might want to play with the white and black threshold filters depending on what you are scanning: Then navigate to Optional Equipment and set ADF Mode to Duplex and make sure ADF Auto Scan is checked:Īfter that, it has some nice post-processing options provided via unpaper and tesseract: In order to get duplex scanning working properly, I had to make sure the following settings were set under Page Options: Run the following to get the app installed with its dependencies: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:jeffreyratcliffe/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gscan2pdf sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr sudo apt-get install unpaper WorkflowĪfter opening gscan2pdf, click the Scan button which opens a scan dialog very similar to the one Adobe Acrobat uses. In order to get past this bug, I had to make sure I was using gscan2pdf’s PPA in order to get the latest version. Under the covers, it uses unpaper and tesseract for cleaning up and OCRing the scans respectively. I’ve been using gscan2pdf to replace my Acrobat workflow. If the scanner still doesn’t show up, you may have to reboot. ![]() Go back to the original search results page and download the “iscan plugin package.” Accept the agreement and download and run the esci-interpreter-gt-s80_0.2.1-1_b package.Īfter that, you should be able to use any scanner application with your scanner. This was the part I missed on my first go around. If you try to run the packaged scanner software, Image Scan!, now, it will give you the error:Ĭould not send command to scanner. The FAQ (link at bottom of that page) states you need to install the data package first and then the core package (libltdl7 for Ubuntu >= 8.10). ![]() From there, accept the agreement and download and run the following in order: Search GT-S50 and download the “core package & data package” first. I’ve outlined the steps below.Įpson provides a linux driver for the scanner that you need to install. This thread helped me out the most when I was trying to get this working. It just took me a little bit to get my workflow setup with a different set of software. Turn scanner on, load document, click scan in Acrobat - out pops a nice optimized OCRd PDF. Back when I was using Windows, I used to use Adobe Acrobat to scan all my documents into PDF. I’m a bit anal when it comes to digitizing all of my important paperwork.
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