A few scanning tips

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A few other links related to scanning and scanners


Index to Subject Areas below

Image Software and Reviews

Third party scanning software

VueScan   -   Most film scanners, many flatbeds - Standalone driver.
www.hamrick.com

Lasersoft Silverfast - Flatbeds and film scanners - Standalone driver.
www.silverfast.com

WIA drivers in Windows XP

EasyTwain (for large format scanners)
www.easytwain.com

JetSoft Art-Scan - uses scanner's TWAIN driver.
www.scanhelp.com

ScanTastic - Photoshop plugin for Macintosh (for HP, Epson, Apple scanners ) - Replaces TWAIN driver.
www.secondglance.com

ScanSoft - PaperPort - uses scanner's TWAIN driver.
www.scansoft.com

SJD Software - PiXCL image development library for TWAIN scanners/cameras
www.pixcl.com

YAPSCU - for various SCSI film scanners - Replaces TWAIN driver.
www.yapscu.com

PScan32 - freeware for original SCSI HP PhotoSmart
www.mecc.co.jp/lenik/psmart.htm

Image Dock - uses scanner's TWAIN driver.
www.imagedock.com

Photo Editors

PC World - Jan 2004 - Ten Photo Editors compared

About.com - Graphic Software
graphicssoft.about.com

Adobe (Photoshop, Photodeluxe, PageMaker, Acrobat, etc, etc, etc.   Don't miss the Tips)
www.adobe.com
Photoshop Tutorials (Google search)

Binuscan - high-end color correction software for scanning
www.binuscan.com

ColorIt (for Macintosh)
www.microfrontier.com

Corel - Photo-Paint
www.corel.com/products
Corel designer.com
Corel Magazine
Corel support news groups
cdug.com - Corel Draw User Group and mailing list
Photo-Paint Tutorials (Google search)

GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program - Free, for Unix (also a Windows version).
www.gimp.org

Corel - Paint Shop Pro
www.jasc.com Corel now
Learning Center tips
Camp Ratty
Paint Shop Pro Tutorials (Google search)

Picture Window
http://www.dl-c.com
Picture Window Tutorials (Google search)

Lemke Software - Graphic Converter, for Macintosh
www.graphicconverter.net

Microsoft Image Composer
www.pioneeris.net/ashton/IC - tips and techniques
Image Composer Tutorials (Google search)

NIH Image, FREE and impressive - a public domain image processing and analysis program for the Macintosh, including documentation.
  rsb.info.nih.gov/nih-image
Free PC version of same   www.scioncorp.com

Ulead PhotoImpact
Stephanie's PhotoImpact Tutorials and PhotoImpact books
  www.eastofthesun.com
Ulead Software: PhotoImpact, iPhotoExpress, Smart Saver and more.
  www.ulead.com
Other PhotoImpact Tutorials (Google search)

OCR Software

Adobe Capture
www.adobe.com/products/acrcapture/main.html
Caere - OmniPage - See ScanSoft now
www.caere.com
Cognitive Technologies - CuneiForm
www.cgntv.com
Expervision - TypeReader
www.expervision.com
Fine Reader
www.abbyy.com
Kotev - Hebrew OCR
www.kotev.co.il
NewSoft - Presto
www.newsoftinc.com
Paravision - PageGenie
www.pagegenie.com
ReadIris
www.irislink.com
Recognita
www.recognita.hu
ScanSoft - Textbridge Pro / OmniPage / Pagis Pro / PaperPort / PageKeeper
www.scansoft.com

OCR with a smile, a book dedicated to OCR
hosc.net/ocr

Document software

DjVu compression for scanned documents
(5 to 10 times smaller than JPG for color documents)
www.lizardtech.com
www.djvuzone.org
djvu.sourceforge.net
www.planetdjvu.com

Forms software
  www.scansoft.com ScanSoft OmniForm
www.acumensoft.com Acumen Systems - Acuform

SCSI and Hardware

Scanner driver standards or interfaces

TWAIN
www.twain.org
ISIS
www.pixtran.com (a division of Captiva)
SANE (Unix)
panda.mostang.com/sane
Twain for OS/2
http://www.stiscan.com

IEEE 1394 Firewire
  Specs, FAQ, and links
  Texas Instruments IEEE 1394 chips

SCSI FAQ:
    www.faqs.org/faqs/by-newsgroup/comp/comp.periphs.scsi.html
    scsifaq.org:9080/scsi_faq/ Gary Field's FAQ
    http://scsifaq.paralan.com Paralan SCSI FAQ

SCSI cards

Adaptec
www.adaptec.com
  ASPI for WinXP
AEC Acard  
www.acard.com/eng
Advansys (Initio)
www.initio.com
Buslogic (then Mylex, then IBM, now LSI Logic)
www.lsilogic.com
DTC  
www.datatechnology.com - Gone now
Qlogic
www.qlogic.com
Symbios
www.lsilogic.com
Tekram
www.tekram.com

Internal Serial cable wiring for COM2 ports

Color Management

Ian Lyons Computer Darkroom
www.computer-darkroom.com

Digital Dog
www.digitaldog.net/tips/index.shtml

Dan Margulis - assorted articles
www.ledet.com/margulis/articles.html
See in particular How Color Management Failed

Charles Poynton's Color technology - Color FAQ and Gamma FAQ
www.poynton.com/Poynton-color.html

Nifty Java Color Applets
www.cs.rit.edu/~ncs/color/

efg's Color Reference Library
www.efg2.com/Lab/Library/Color

Adobe Technical Guide - Color Management Technical Guides
www.adobe.com/support/techguides/color

ICC - Papers, Specifications
www.color.org

sRGB description
www.w3.org/Graphics/Color/sRGB

Microsoft - Color Management Hardware Issues
www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/color/default.mspx White Papers

Newsgroups and Mailing Lists

Newsgroups about Scanning and photo editor software:

comp.periphs.scanners   and   alt.comp.periphs.scanner
Both address scanners: selection, hardware and software installation, applications and problems.

comp.graphics.apps.photoshop and alt.graphics.photoshop - For Photoshop.

adobe.photoshop.elements - For Photoshop Elements

comp.graphics.apps.corel and alt.graphics.corel - For Corel programs

comp.grahphics.apps.paint-shop-pro - For Paint Shop Pro

comp.graphics.apps.ulead - For PhotoImpact and other Ulead programs

comp.periphs.printers - Printers

rec.photo.digital - Mostly digital camera related issues, also general digital imaging discussions, with overlap of some of the others above.

UseNet news groups archives are available, and can be searched all at once by keywords from a free usenet archive at google.com. Articles will be found there long after they have disappeared from your own news server. This is an extremely valuable resource.
    groups.google.com - Search for your topic's keywords

Lists of newsgroup FAQ: www/faqs/org/faqs

Scanner Mailing Lists:

Tony Sleep's film scanner mailing list    (Archives here)

High-end Professional scanner mailing list

Copyright

Your work is protected under copyright law as soon as you create it - text, images, music, etc. However, a registered copyright is very practical. It is very inexpensive, and there is one simple form. Honored in 100 countries via the 1989 Bern Convention. Formal registration supports court action to resolve copyright violations, with financial recovery of actual damages, statutory damages and attorneys fees.   Recommended.   See Library of Congress link for all details.

The USA Copyright Office - Library of Congress
www.loc.gov/copyright or
www.copyright.gov (the same site)

The Copyright Website
www.benedict.com

Copyright FAQ
www.aimnet.com/~carroll/copyright/faq-home.html

10 Big Myths about copyright explained
www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html

Oppedahl & Larson pages
www.patents.com

Cornell Legal Law Institute - law about copyright
www.law.cornell.edu:80/topics/copyright.html

Copyright Society of the USA - Duke University School of Law
www.law.duke.edu/copyright
www.copyrightkids.org   See their copyright site for kids



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