APPLE IMAGE CAPTURE VUESCAN DRIVERS
APPLE IMAGE CAPTURE VUESCAN MANUAL

All you have to do is choose Services in the Application menu and select Import Image. Just plug in your digital camera or scanner and you can now directly import your pictures from any application that supports Services and Rich Text Format. iPhoto doesn't even show the Services menu, and Aperture shows it but doesn't support Services. Here's Apple's blurb on Image Capture, note the reference to Apple's abandoned (they abandon a lot of their tech, it's surprising nobody calls them on this) 'Services'. I know he wants a Star Wars Lego, so I'm confident he'll be back to his slave labor, though I may have to go to 7 cents/scan. Unfortunately I chose a pack that had pictures of his brother in it pre-Ben, I'd have done better with one that starred Ben. It slowed things down anyway and the confirmation wasn't necessary.Д«en's not used to real work, so he started to lose interest after the first 25 scans. I had IC set up to launch Preview to view each scan, but sometimes it fails to launch.I should have just used TIFF, I'm not keeping the TIFF anyway. It works fine in Image Capture, but Aperture has trouble with PNG thumbnail creation.

APPLE IMAGE CAPTURE VUESCAN MANUAL

Manual has quite a few settings (similar to Preview's image editing tools) but I chose None since I was going to edit the lossless scans in Aperture and export archival JPEGs.

The 'auto' image improvement setting produced poor results.

No matter, I used 'A Better Finder Rename' to embed date metadata in the file names.

If you keep the default name of 'scan' it increments each scan with a number, but I don't think this works correctly if you change the default name.

Image Capture won't remember settings between sessions, but it does remember them during each session.

It was very fast at 300 dpi, a bit sluggish at 600 dpi (a new scanner would be faster, no doubt, with only a few bugs and missing features: Most scanner manufacturer software is horrid, so I try to avoid it.)

APPLE IMAGE CAPTURE VUESCAN DRIVERS

(Had I installed drivers years ago, honestly I don't recall. I plugged in my old Epson 1660* and Image Capture recognized it immediately. He's keen to earn some Lego money, so I told him I'd pay 5 cents for each scan. Today I set my 8yo up with Image Capture, which I'd only recently realized is Apple's OS X scanning tool. I came close with Vuescan, but, really, it's still too tricksy. For years I've tinkered with a scanning workflow simple enough to outsource to my mother. Preview is probably the most underestimated OS X application, but Image Capture is close second.

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