Scanning software

[Chuck Wintle]

I recently purchased an HP G4050 scanner and it comes with all the software to make it work...not. After many times reinstalling the HP software it will not recognize the scanner!:mad: Not sure whats up with that so I uninstalled all of it and started using the built-in xp scanning software.....which works quite well except the interface is very basic....so only very few options are available. Who has had good luck with scanning software? If anyone can make a recommendation I want something that works efficiently, quickly and does not require a lot of of fiddling. Thanks. :D:D

[Thomas Bank]

VueScan (http://www.hamrick.com/) - end of discussion. :)

[Chuck Wintle]

VueScan (http://www.hamrick.com/) - end of discussion. :)
I am trying it and it seems quite good....much quicker to install than the HP software and easier to use.

[Bill Huber]

I have found that HP makes some good machines their software just plan sucks. Its buggy and take a lot of memory to run and a lot of disk space to install.

[Tim Morton]

if anyone is reading this and thinking about buying a scanner...

i just picked up a $99 epson scanner that is really good...FWIW.

[Chuck Wintle]

VueScan (http://www.hamrick.com/) - end of discussion. :)
I just bought Vuescan and, so far, it is much simpler and direct than the software that came with the scanner. :DThe HP program is hundreds of megs in size vs roughly 8 megs for vuescan. It's been my experience that smaller programs work as well as the humongously bloated software from whoever. A case in point is the popular Nero program. Takes forever to install and still has many bugs and glitches the most notable being its refusal to install if it sees a remnant of a previous version of nero.:mad: i got rid of Nero and found ImgBurn which works well.:D

[Brian Kent]

Tim, I have used Epson scanners and all-in-one for years. I like the multi level user interface, where I can control every detail, or stick it in automatic. So far the automatic has made no mistakes.

[Thomas Bank]

I've been using VueScan on both PCs and Macs since it first came out a decade ago. I was aware of it because I had been using VuePrint for several years before that - a jpg viewer and utility program.

Ed Hamrick has been constantly working on VueScan, upgrading it as newer scanners came out and refining it. It is something of a life quest for him it seems. I particularly like that it supports just about any scanner out there. That means that I don't have to figure out new software for a new scanner - VueScan is going to be there for me no matter what I throw at it.