And secondly I simply was curious to know which one was fastest. I did this because I need to scan a lot of old negatives, and I for one, think that the scanning process is the only less joyful thing to do in the whole analog photography process, and with these old negatives – mainly holiday photos – I just wanted a quick way to get through them and not lose too much in quality. That shouldn't prolong the scanning time, unless you add more features, like noise reduction or multi scan, which I don't use. And this part is of course a matter of individual taste, you may prefer other settings then what I used. I started out spending some time finding the right settings in both pieces of software, I haven't included that here. But feel free to add a comment below, with your own experience or advice on what I could do better. You can of course tweak and adjust for perfection for each scan, and that will obviously give you the best result for each scan – in either Vuescan or Silverfast – but like I said that wasn't my goal here.įirst off I want to make clear that I'm certainly no expert, there are a lot of technical stuff I know jack about, This is made purely from a personal perspective. Very Highly recommended.My idea for this little test, was to see which software would give me the best result, at the shortest time. It is particularly a bargain when you buy it in the Apple Store since you can use it on all of your Macs. it blows away VueScan, SilverFast, ABBY FineReader, and drivers from the manufacturers themselves. What I like is that the developer continues to improve compatibility with more and more scanners.įor Office Documents (not art scans), this scanner driver easily pays for itself and is faster than any other existing scanner driver on the same hardware. This scanner driver makes many used scanners fantastic performers. Why buy a new $500 scanner when a $90 will be nearly as fast? Or use the driver on a $500 used scanner (that formerly sold for $2000) that blows away what you can get new for $500. In fact, since the Canon DR-2850c is available for $90 on eBay, you can have huge savings on the hardware cost of scanners by simply using the ExactScan Pro driver. For example, it allows you to use the Canon DR 2850c scanner at full speed of 300 DPI Grayscale at 20 single-sided pages per minute with OCR. It allows you to run numerous previously incompatible PC-only scanners. But the ExactScan Pro squeezes 10 pages per minute at 300 DPI for this scanner. The Brother ImageCenter ADS-2000 scanner does 7 pages per minute at 300 DPI. For example, it is TWICE AS FAST AS THE NATIVE the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M's driver when scanning at 300 DPI in greyscale WITH OCR! Without OCR it is faster. This scanner driver is simply faster than even native Mac scanner drivers provided by the scanner manufacturers. This scanner driver is simply the best available for scanning office documents. When Mac Fujitsu Scanner users find out how well this software works with the ix1500 and works in the 64 bit world to reenergize the Fujitsu unsupported Fujitsu Mac scanners, they'll drop the Fujitsu software and buy the Exactscan Pro company. This software has saved me so many hassles I would have paid more. The ix1500 works the same as before, but the presets are in Exactscan Pro. But what a piece of engineering, simple, and like a Mac, Just Works. Yes, with price conversion (to Euro) it's a little over $100. Yes, the ix1500 was a waste of money, all I needed was Exactscan Pro to run my s1500m and I would be very happy. infallible AND it runs the on 64 bit and works with my old s1500m. OCR three times faster, easy to run, operate, i.e. I needs to be noted I also use Hazel, it reads, ocr'd docs then imposes rules on them making changes and putting them where they belong As time moves on I'm without software for a perfectly good s1500m and a new ix1500 that NOW comes in second place for ocring documents that hazel doesn't like to read for some reason, and they don't care. Nonetheless, I'm using the ix1500 with scansnap Home. What to do,? the ix1500comes with scansnap software to use generally for all types of scanning. ALL older fujitsu scanners sans ix1500 will be useless in a 64 bit world, plus fujitsu barely supports the older scanners. Fujitsu in the meantime is dropping support for newer operating systems in the 64 bit world, i.e. The later because mac is going all 64 bit SOON. Used all mac and Fujitsu scanners, 1300i, s1500m, now ix1500.
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