On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 13:12 -0700, Teruel de Campo MD wrote:
I do a lot of scanning and I use vuescan. It is the only pro scanning application under linux I have found. For my use is the best for any platform.
Thanks for that pointer. I had no heard of vuescan and if I can't find a solution in GPL-land I may consider this.
You requirements are pretty simple. xsane can do it.
Well xsane can sort of do it. Mainly, the interface is so horrible that it takes a lot of training for the average user to figure it out. And after you scan, sending to email is not really there. It relies on a local MTA and you have to compose the message right in xsane. It does not integrate with your regular email software (Evolution in this case) at all.
Vuescan does automatic selection or semiautomatic or manual.
You mean of the item on the flatbed? It can "detect" it?
If I have many slides at the same time and are all the same size and orientation can do it all automatically or you can adjust the first one and the rest will be similar or you can adjust one at the time. This is great. xsane of course can not scan all at the same time so it is time consuming.
I don't have any need for slides so this isn't important to me. My scanner doesn't even support slides.
There are a zillion of other choices. Another important feature is that xsane requires that the scanner is supported by sane, vuescan does not.
Fortunately my scanner is supported half-ass in sane. At least it does do the two basic features I need which are flat-bed and multi-page. Thanks for your insight. Very helpful. Regards, - John Lange www.johnlange.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org