Have you tried XSane? It will do batch scans. For more advanced image correction, you will probably have to use GIMP or ImageMagick though.
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Thanks, I'm trying it now :)
It's very close to what I need, but I can't quite get the colours right. I'm trying to figure out whether that's down to the software, or whether I just need a bit more practice. I'm poking around the settings to see what happens :D
I swear by VueScan. You can check the support status for your scanner on their site.
Thanks for replying :)
I've had a look, and they do support my printer, but I can't justify spending £50 on it while I've got working software under Windows. Sorry, I should have clarified that in my post
I also use VueScan on Windows. It's generally a good scan software (with OCR, artifact removal, etc). The price is fair; license is multi platform and not time bound either. I bought it 10 years ago and still get updates.
I use XSane for scanning photos and I get good results. It has plenty of options and auto-names files like you said. I'm not sure what Descreening and Backlight Correction are for, though.
Thanks for replying :)
It looks like it does pretty much everything I need, but I'm having some trouble getting the colours correct. I'm getting a slight purple tinge on the sample photo I'm using. It might just be that I need to learn how to do it through XSane, so I'm having a play with the settings.
Descreening helps to get rid of the old newspaper effect that newspapers and some old documents had. It's not usually needed for photos, but I've got some clippings from newspapers, and some very old documents with the effect.
Backlight Correction basically just brings up the brightness in a photo, but rather than just cranking up the exposure or brightness, it seems to do the equivalent of bringing the detail from shadows in Photoshop. It's not great, but now and then it does a good enough job that I don't have to open a photo editor.
but rather than just cranking up the exposure or brightness, it seems to do the equivalent of bringing the detail from shadows in Photoshop.
Maybe the levels slider? If you place the black point pointer further to the left shoulder of the curve, the shadows won't be as dark.
I've tried that, but it adjusts the whole image rather than focusing on the shadows. It might just be something I'm getting wrong, but in the Epson scan software, it seems to only affect the shadows and dark areas. More often than not though, it affects the whole photo and screws it up, but when it does get it right, it's great.
Because it screws it up so often, I can live without it, but I'm still struggling with the colour cast.
On Windows, I like NAPS2. I haven't tried it on Linux, though
It does look good, but unfortunately, it doesn't have any of the image correction options that I need. I mostly scan old photos, and a lot of them have that reddish / orange colour cast. I can fix them in a photo editor, but obviously that takes more time than if I can fix them in the scanner software.
It's a great recommendation for normal scanning though, thanks :)
Mint has simplescan. Did you try that?
Thanks for the suggestion, but it's no good for what I need. While it looks great for scanning documents, I need something that can just scan a selected area for a photo, instead of the whole scanner bed, and something that can do some basic colour corrections and automatic naming.
XSane looks to be the best so far, but I can't quite get the colour correction right.