(Note that I also have a Canon ImageClass multi-function printer/scanner sitting on my desk, the scanner of which I’ve never figured out how to use.
Nothing fancy and not many options but it does the job and saved an old, working-fine scanner from the scrap heap. The pair of scripts allow me to select from several image sizes, converts the image from ppm to jpg, copies the image to the Mac and opens it in Graphic Converter. To make it even more convenient I wrote an AppleScript front end for the shell script. Making it unnecessary to log in to the Pi. Ssh 'scanimage -x 210 -y 297 -resolution 300 > scan.ppm' This simple command runs an A4 sized scan at 300 dpi:
Finding that to be inconvenient I wrote a shell script on the Mac that runs scanimage via SSH. Since the Pi is headless I had to run scanimage via an SSH session. I connected the LiDE 30 and installed scanimage on the Pi. I happened to have a Raspberry Pi next to my desk which runs a webcam. This scanner runs on a ReadyScan LED technology. It provides maximum scan area of 8.5 x 11.7 inch. This photo scanner has an optical resolution of 6400 dpi with a color bit depth of 48-bits per pixel internal / external. It is equipped with Color Epson MatrixCCD 12-line sensor. It seemed crazy to buy VueScan for such an old scanner. The Epson Perfection V500 is a flatbed color photo scanner. Based on advanced technologies from one of the world leaders in document recognition solutions, FineReader Sprint Plus delivers one–button conversion from printed document to editable text.I have an ancient CanoScan LiDE 30. Along with a new Stacking tool* for organising photos, Adobe Photoshop Elements features automatic elimination of red eye, face tagging (automatic identification of all photos that contain faces), and a full range of common photo fixes, including colour, contrast and lighting.ĪBBYY FineReader 5 (Mac)/6 (Windows) Sprint Plus An easy–to–use yet powerful OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program that makes scanning from document–to–text a simple and quick operation.