Fortunately it turns out that Epson are a (reasonably) Linux friendly company, providing a Linux version of their scanner software for a large number of distros. The firmware itself is closed source & proprietry, but they do provide both a Linux version of their scanner software ( IScan) and a SANE backend, under the GPL (+ an exception to allow them to deal with the firmware loading library). With this all installed, I now have a choice of 3 programs to do scanning with, Sane, IScan, and VueScan.

The only remaining problem is that if I try to scan at the full 4800 DPI my laptop (with 768 MB of RAM) goes into a swap death spiral, because the combination of the raw RGB scan, the infrared scan and the post-processing requires on the order of 1 GB of memory for a single medium format slide. So I’m stuck at 2400 DPI for while, until I talk myself into shelling out for a new desktop with 4 GB of RAM. That said, this is more than adequate for now – the image below is a scan of one of my first pinhole images from a year & a half ago in London, scaled down from 5000×5000 pixels.This VueScan changes nothing on your system installs nothing in your system and all other scanner software will continue to function. VueScan can output scanned documents, photos, and film in PDF, JPEG, TIFF formats. It can also recognize text using OCR and create multi-page PDFs using flatbed scanners and scanners with automatic document feeders. VueScan is a replacement for the software that came with your scanner.

Also try: Kaspersky Rescue Disk 2018 18.0.11.0 (Windows, EXE) #Vuescan linux software Supported Operating Systems: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 (32-bit, 64-bit). VueScan Download Links – 9.46 MBĪccessing your WiFi-enabled scanner has never been easier.

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