![]() The tabs along the left hand side of the GUI provide a wealth of settings and adjustments, allowing you to tweak the final image parameters to your heart’s content. When the scanner identification process completes, the VueScan GUI appears and the splash screen disappears. Anyone who has used VueScan at any time in the past or present will be more familiar with variations on its current splash screen image. Clearly the Mac OS 9 version of VueScan inherited a very early rendition of the splash screen. The above is a capture of the splash screen from the Mac OS 9 version of VueScan (7.6.64) on my Power Macintosh 7300, running Mac OS 9.1. ![]() During this time, VueScan presents its splash screen, so that you know that it is working away on your behalf. To use it, simply plug your scanner in, run the program and wait for 20 seconds or so while it does its magic, recognizing your scanner and setting itself up. As a key simplification, no manufacturer drivers are needed, eliminating that entire headache – VueScan provides internal drivers for all the scanners it supports. As a long time VueScan user, I had many, many years ago purchased a “Professional” license for it, and the Mac OS 9 version of VueScan happily accepted the license code and registered the product, removing the watermarks that the unregistered version otherwise places over all images that it creates.Ĭapturing digital images with VueScan is a breeze. I found it at The Macintosh Garden (downloaded it and installed it. Version 7.6.64 of VueScan is supported on Mac OS 9.x. My Power Macintosh 7300/200 is running Mac OS 9.1, a January 2001 product, and so I reasoned that there had to be a version of VueScan for it by then. It will therefore come as no surprise that VueScan supported my HP 6200C scanner on Linux with no issues at all, and between the three of us (myself, Linux and VueScan), a lot of scanned images came into being. While it is perhaps just a bit of an overstatement to say this, VueScan seems to support just about every scanner known to man, and does so on just about every major operating system known to man. VueScan came into being in 1998, the creation of one Ed Hamrick, who to this day continues to earn a handsome living from the sale of VueScan licenses while simultaneously providing an invaluable service to the world (a nearly universal scanner interface). It was at that time that I discovered VueScan, which I now know to be the most popular scanner driver/interface in the world. This was a liberating, educational and stimulating move BUT, the above TWAIN drivers no longer worked, and most manufacturers did not provide support for Linux, considering it to be a distant stepchild of distinctly poor lineage (if you know what I mean!). In the weird and wacky world of Windows, getting the scanner’s TWAIN drivers to “take” and actually allow the computer to “see” the scanner was always a challenge, and I remember fighting my way through that unnecessarily difficult process far too many times, with Windows almost literally kicking and screaming the whole way along.īTW, we all know what TWAIN stands for, right? TWAIN: Technology Without An Interesting Name! □īy 2004, I had finally had all of Windows that I could stand and I moved to Linux. Of course, I still have that HP 6200C scanner (…and the 450 MHz Pentium II system as well!), and of course, it still works like a charm.ĭuring that time, I used the manufacturer-provided TWAIN drivers to interface my scanners to my computers, allowing the capture of images, and then carried on with the rest of my workflow. I started with an Umax 2400 scanner at the time, and eventually upgraded to an HP 6200C scanner, acquired when I upgraded my 200 MHz Pentium Pro system to a 450 MHz Pentium II system. ![]() In recognition of this, let me add an addendum to the last post, addressing a different Step One of the workflow, which is the capturing of digital images from printed images via scanning.Īs a nearly lifelong fan of digital imaging, I have been using scanners to capture images since 1996 or so, something that I started doing as soon as my then new 200 MHz Pentium Pro system finally provided me with a computer that had enough “grunt” to get the job done. Instead of being captured with a digital camera, they were being captured with film cameras, printed and then scanned. Prior to the emergence of usable digital cameras, digitized photos were still being created of course. It occurred to me after publishing my last post, Digital Photography Workflow on a Power Macintosh 7300/200, that I had missed an obvious point.
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