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
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
