“In this 10th year of business we are making a huge effort to increase the number of supported scanners, the number of supported languages, the number of advanced features, and also to make it as widely available as possible at the best price to all markets.” “We actively support educational institutions, and recognize that their financial resources are often very limited.” says Ed Hamrick, President of Hamrick Software. This is an effective 50% discount for multi-user licenses. Now Hamrick Software has announced that in recognition of the large number of educational institutions using VueScan, there is a new policy of offering educational institutions two licenses of VueScan for every license purchased, including educational institutions that have previously purchased VueScan.

Phoenix, AZ April 20th, 2009 - Hamrick Software, the developer of VueScan, the world's most widely used scanning software, has recently been celebrating 10 years of business by releasing it’s latest version 8.5.10 – with more than 600 improvements since the release of VueScan 8.4 two years ago. (Note that I also have a Canon ImageClass multi-function printer/scanner sitting on my desk, the scanner of which I’ve never figured out how to use.Hamrick Software, the developer of VueScan, the world's most widely used scanning software, celebrates 10 years of development by offering educational institutions two copies of VueScan for the price of one copy. Nothing fancy and not many options but it does the job and saved an old, working-fine scanner from the scrap heap. The pair of scripts allow me to select from several image sizes, converts the image from ppm to jpg, copies the image to the Mac and opens it in Graphic Converter. To make it even more convenient I wrote an AppleScript front end for the shell script. Making it unnecessary to log in to the Pi. Ssh 'scanimage -x 210 -y 297 -resolution 300 > scan.ppm' This simple command runs an A4 sized scan at 300 dpi: Finding that to be inconvenient I wrote a shell script on the Mac that runs scanimage via SSH. Since the Pi is headless I had to run scanimage via an SSH session. I connected the LiDE 30 and installed scanimage on the Pi. I happened to have a Raspberry Pi next to my desk which runs a webcam.

It seemed crazy to buy VueScan for such an old scanner.

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