[NTLUG:Discuss] "image preservation" recommendations

[Patrick R. Michaud]

I've had very good results with gscan2pdf -- for most of the
scanning that I do it's been much easier to work with than xsane.

Pm

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:50:34AM -0600, David Simmons wrote:
> 
> 
> Leroy - XSANE is your friend....spend some time on their website
> (xsane.org)  and probably more time on the supported scanners
> list:
> 
> http://www.sane-project.org/sane-backends.html
> 
> Hope that helps - dave
> 
> > I want to scan some old (mostly
> black and white) pictures as a
> > preservation measure.  I run SuSE
> 10.3 and would like hardware
> > recommendations (and
> de-recommendations) concerning equipment which
> > would meet the
> need and work well with Linux (especially SuSE 10.3).
> > 
> >
> Since I've never tried this any general input concerning best practices
> > and pitfalls would also be appreciated.
> > 
> > On a
> related topic, any one know of a good (and reasonable) service for
> > converting my parent's 8mm film strips into videos?
> > 
> > Thanks for any and all input.
> > 
> >
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