Grumpy wrote:
On Monday 27 November 2006 07:46, john s. wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 27 November 2006 02:59, john s. wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Sunday 26 November 2006 17:21, john s. wrote:
Its just me here... My aunt has old family photos (1897+); I packed
up the laptop and scanner and went through the first batch Friday. I
have one of the Windows boxes set up as storage only and would like to
have the photos in a more 'secure' (meaning its easier to swipe the
laptop than the box) place. Being able to access the printer would be
a bonus. Sidenote- my aunt/uncle are in their 60's/70's; having me
scan the photos was quite a kick for them... They finally got a dvd
player for the tv, but haven't figured out how it works- scanning the
photos into the laptop was like rocket science. I was -very- impressed
with the scanner prog I was using; I've been working with Windows for
7-8 years and the HP scanner program I've been using is -total- junk.
I'm glad I've been installing Fedora (and other builds) onto the boxes
here... I've been seeing how lame Windows really is.
If it were just to copy photos around, I'd say it's easier to just use
a pen-drive, memory-stick or CD. However, the remote printing alone is
valuable enough to try for samba. As Craig said, it's not very
difficult, and you'll get any help you need from the list.
BTW, what did you use for your scanner? Just interested, as there are
many possibilities and I haven't tried most of them.
Anne
I considered the usb toys; I have the cat5 crossover cable plugged
into the desktop- which would be easier to use than crawling around on
my hands and knees. There's three sets of kvm's, cables, computers and a
15# cat to deal with, while I'm down there.
USB pen-drives are so much less trouble :-)
I used xane; I was looking at the photos again today, in different
lighting. I few of the photos will have to be done- though it seems as
though those were done towards the end of the project. I looked at one
of the PDF's I created from a handwritten letter. The writing seemed a
little garbled...
That could be default settings. I generally scan through Gimp > Acquire
which fires up XSane, then loads the capture into Gimp. I like that
because it's often necessary to slightly adjust contrast, on captures
from my scanner. The default settings are very low resolution, but you
can set them to what gives you a good result, then save that as your
default. There's also an auto-adjust for gamma, which saves a lot of
problems.
The only other app that I've used in the last couple of years is a
proprietary (but low-cost) program called VueScan. I bought this because
it was capable of talking to my scsi film-scanner, and got better results
than XSane did for that piece of equipment. I haven't tried it with my
Epson scanner, though. The good thing about VueScan is that you get a
free trial before having to pay anything, and if you buy a license it is
for more than one machine in your home.
I'm only recommending this if the normal scanning tools can't get the
results that you need.
Anne
Doh! I'll check the software out when I'm done buying usb drives...
O:-)
Anyways, there's usb to ide cables available (I have two); I'll go
that ave if I can't get the buzzards to play nice. Thanks.
Ever consider burning the photos to a CD or DVD ?
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Yeah, the final copies. I picked up several hundred photos and
negatives when my Grandmother died. There's probably over a thousand
photos around, just between my mother, aunt, sister and I. My aunt has
photos from 3-5 branches of the family tree.
