
(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. Works with almost all film/slide scanners Scan to JPEG/TIFF/RAW Infrared Dust Removal Color correction IT8 Calibration Photoshop/GIMP Integration The best part for ScanVue is that it works with older Scanners as well as new Scanners.

Nothing fancy and not many options but it does the job and saved an old, working-fine scanner from the scrap heap. VueScan is the ultimate tool for all your film and slide scanning needs. 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 software makes it easy to produce the highest-quality custom scans by providing a user-friendly interface in which you can adjust various aspects of the finished product. This simple command runs an A4 sized scan at 300 dpi: VueScan is a popular scanning software that provides many scanning features and supports a large number of scanner models. VueScan 9 is a powerful image scanning/optical character recognition application that is compatible with most flatbed/film scanners and printer/scanner combos. 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. Drum Unit (the Drum), when used in a compatible Canon-brand imageCLASS.


I connected the LiDE 30 and installed scanimage on the Pi. If you havent installed a Windows driver for this scanner, VueScan will. I happened to have a Raspberry Pi next to my desk which runs a webcam. It seemed crazy to buy VueScan for such an old scanner.
