[PLUG] SANE not quite easy - Resolution

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Wed Jun 27 18:03:05 UTC 2018


Gotcha.  I don't have any better solutions for that.

If they were slides, I'd suggest the method I used in Seattle a few years
ago, that went through about 3000+ slides in kodak projector carousels is
an afternoon.  Automation++.

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:32 AM, Michael Rasmussen <michael at jamhome.us>
wrote:

> Of primary interest are 2 1/4 x 2 3/4 (6x9cm) negatives from my
> grandparents. After that 35mm negatives.
>
> I was entrusted to my grandparents' negatives and am feeling a
> responsibility to scan them into digital files for my relatives.
>
>
> On 2018-06-27 10:10, Russell Senior wrote:
>
>> What kind of transparencies?  If they are 35mm slides, and lots of them,
>> there is a better way.
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 9:00 AM, Michael Rasmussen <michael at jamhome.us>
>> wrote:
>>
>> In another group, it was suggested I try Vuescan from
>>> https://www.hamrick.com/
>>> The free Linux download untars to three binaries.
>>>
>>> It just works.
>>>
>>> Now to, when I have time, figure out the issue with xsane.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2018-06-26 18:37, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
>>>
>>> I've acquired an Epson V500 flatbed scanner. After immediate install of
>>>> xsane and the Epson iscan drivers scanning does not work.  I've added
>>>> myself to the scanner group and done a bit of unproductive googling.
>>>>
>>>> The sympton can be summed up:
>>>>
>>>>   michael at camper:~$ scanimage -L
>>>>   device `epson:libusb:001:006' is a Epson  flatbed scanner
>>>>   michael at camper:~$ scanimage -T
>>>>   scanimage: rounded value of br-x from -32768 to -32768
>>>>   scanimage: rounded value of br-y from -32768 to -32768
>>>>   scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument
>>>>   michael at camper:~$
>>>>
>>>> If you have a cluestick on what needs to be done, I'm ready for a whack.
>>>>
>>>
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