[digiKam-users] How to set "Basic Options" and "Scanner Specific Options"

[Stephen Liu]

Hi all,

DigiKam is complete new to me.  I'm running it to scan film negatives on Epson flatbed scanner.  The images scanned are not clear. 

Please advise how to set the items on both "Basic Options" and "Scanner Specific Options".  Pointers would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Regards
SL

[Gilles Caulier-4]

Hi,

This depend of your scanner device capability.

In fact, in digiKam, there is no scanner driver. All the relevant
code, including device settings is delegate to libsane :

http://www.sane-project.org/

This want mean that digiKam plugin to scan ask to libsane all the
settings available for a device. It's the same to quiery a preview and
start a scan.

In other words, you must to ask to libsane team for details.

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le ven. 10 mai 2019 à 13:38, Stephen Liu <[hidden email]> a écrit :

>
> Hi all,
>
> DigiKam is complete new to me.  I'm running it to scan film negatives on Epson flatbed scanner.  The images scanned are not clear.
>
> Please advise how to set the items on both "Basic Options" and "Scanner Specific Options".  Pointers would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards
> SL
>

[leoutation]

On 5/10/19 1:38 PM, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> DigiKam is complete new to me.  I'm running it to scan film negatives on
> Epson flatbed scanner.  The images scanned are not clear.
>
> Please advise how to set the items on both "Basic Options" and "Scanner
> Specific Options".  Pointers would be appreciated.
>
Hi
To compare, you may try Xsane, the best sane frontend for me, or any
Sane frontend.



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Maderios

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Maderios,

Thanks for your advice. 

I have tried XSane for more than one week scanning film negatives but the result was not good.  VueScan works for me here and the images are very nice.  I wonder whether there is an alternation in Open Source.

Regards

SL

On Friday, May 10, 2019, 8:26:15 PM GMT+8, <[hidden email]> wrote:

On 5/10/19 1:38 PM, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> DigiKam is complete new to me.  I'm running it to scan film negatives on
> Epson flatbed scanner.  The images scanned are not clear.
>
> Please advise how to set the items on both "Basic Options" and "Scanner
> Specific Options".  Pointers would be appreciated.

>
Hi

To compare, you may try Xsane, the best sane frontend for me, or any
Sane frontend.



--
Maderios

[leoutation]

On 5/10/19 2:34 PM, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Maderios,
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
> I have tried XSane for more than one week scanning film negatives but
> the result was not good.  VueScan works for me here and the images are
> very nice.  I wonder whether there is an alternation in Open Source.

For which epson scanner model?

> Regards
> SL
>
> On Friday, May 10, 2019, 8:26:15 PM GMT+8, <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>
> On 5/10/19 1:38 PM, Stephen Liu wrote:
>  > Hi all,
>  >
>  > DigiKam is complete new to me.  I'm running it to scan film negatives on
>  > Epson flatbed scanner.  The images scanned are not clear.
>  >
>  > Please advise how to set the items on both "Basic Options" and "Scanner
>  > Specific Options".  Pointers would be appreciated.
>
>  >
> Hi
>
> To compare, you may try Xsane, the best sane frontend for me, or any
> Sane frontend.
>
>
>
> --
> Maderios

--
Maderios