[arch-general] Free photo scan software with batch process?

[Jayesh Badwaik]

On Monday 09 Jul 2012 07:53:59 Arvid Warnecke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is not too much Arch related, but maybe there are some analogue
> photographers on the list who can give me some hints?
> I am looking for a software for my Epson V700 Photo scanner which is
> able to scan in batch mode.
> I installed iscan last night, which is the official Epson software for
> Linux, but it seems to be a bad version of the software for Mac or
> Windows. There is no batch mode at all and when I tried to select one
> photo from the scanner the selection always moved away and I wasn't
> able to move it back to the picture... :(
> 
> I know there is VueScan for Linux, but I already tried it for Mac and
> I didn't like it at all. The UI lacks any comfort and the results
> where pretty bad. I know there are lots of people who use VueScan and
> are very happy about it, but it seems that you have to spent much
> more time with the tool than I am willing to. I don't take too many
> analogue photos at the moment, I work full-time and I have two kids.
> There is no use for a software where I have to spent a few weekends
> until I found the correct workflow. ;)
> 
> TIA,
> Arvid

XSane is a very good choice I suppose. Right now I don't know. But it 
used to do batch scans for my HP Officejet 4200 IIIRC. 
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Jayesh Badwaik
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