Gordon's Tech

I replaced my despised ScanSnap S1300  with (sigh) another Fujitsu - the ScanSnap ix500 . So far I like the ix500 almost as much as I dislik...

I've used my Epson V700 with Image Capture for years. Until today it's never had a problem. Today it has a problem! My scans are tak...

I bought this scanner because Joe Kissell loved it and Kissell is a good geek. By my standards it was a bit of a shot in the dark, but I&#...

Gordon's Rules of Acquisition  remind me that the purchase price is often the smallest cost of acquisition. So I like to digest each pie...

Apple doesn't say much about the newly enhanced scanning feature built into 10.6 ... Apple - Mac OS X - What Is Mac OS X - All Applicati...

I've long wanted a home scanner that would scan to local or network storage without intervention. In the 1990s I thought about ways to a...

I've written before about the lousy quality of OS X scanner drivers . Today Scott Gruby, a vendor of OS X software, provides some detail...

I'm reasonably good with a scanner, but I still appreciate these tips ... Macintouch - Scanners ... Just to give an upper bound on the r...

If you scan a B&W text page at 600 dpi into Adobe Acrobat, and apply fax-style run length compression you'll get a file of about 60K...

When upgrading OS X  , the cost of the OS is the least of your expenses. There's often software to be replaced [1], an immense amount of...

I have negatives for the thousands of prints sitting in a waterproof box in a protected closet in an upstairs bedroom. At the current rate o...

OS X recognizes the iPhone, in part, as a camera. So attaching the iPhone to a cable triggers camera behavior. If you don't like iPhoto ...

I've just installed an Epson Perfection V700 scanner with Epson Scan software dated Jan 2008. It has the same bug referenced on Macintou...

Image compression is a tricky thing. For example, few people know that PNG is by far the best format to use for screen shots; vastly better ...

Scott Gruby authors some document management tools for OS X . In response to a comment I wrote on his blog he mentioned some document scanne...

Recently I wrote about using OS X "Image Capture" for photo Scanning . I've gotten some praise for the results, so I figured I...

Color negatives are hard to scan. This is rarely mentioned ... Scanner Review: Microtek ScanMaker i900 ... Converting color negatives to pos...

I'm thinking of getting a flatbed scanner that will do at least 12 35 mm negatives in one batch job. I want to pay under $600. It seems ...

Preview is probably the most underestimated OS X application, but Image Capture is close second. For years I've tinkered with a scanning...

The Mac has two persistent significant weaknesses. One is speech recognition -- there's nothing on the Mac comparable to the best XP sol...