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Ed Hamrick
Many, many people in this newsgroup have taken the time to write to
me with suggestions for improving VueScan in the past. I really
appreciate the many excellent suggestions I've gotten, and these
are the main reason VueScan has improved so much in the past few years.
I'd like to ask for suggestions again, but instead of asking for
suggestions for small changes to VueScan (which are always welcome),
I'd like to ask people to put on their thinking caps and think of
big-picture suggestions.
For instance, here's an idea for a revamped user interface:
http://www.hamrick.com/images/newui.jpg
What do people think of this?
Some other big-picture ideas I've had:
1) Lower prices for reflective scanners (or no watermarking for reflective
scans)
2) Make price proportional to scanner price (I don't really like this
though)
3) Lower prices for students (it's hard to do this automatically though)
4) Integrate with Mac OS X Image Capture (would this be useful?)
5) Integrate with TWAIN (might be a support nightmare though)
6) Add support for Fujitsu document scanners (not many in use though)
7) Add support for curves (can do this in Photoshop though)
8) Add support for scanning to multi-page PDF files
9) Automatic recognition of multiple snapshots on a flatbed (batch scanning)
I'd like to get other big-picture suggestions. One of the things I'm
well aware of is that my main competitor isn't SilverFast, but is the
free software that comes with most scanners. I think I need to focus
on adding capabilities to VueScan that are useful to people and that
aren't also included in the software that comes with scanners.
Please send your big-picture suggestions to (e-mail address removed)
with an e-mail subject of "Big Suggestion" and I'll summarize here.
Thanks!
Regards,
Ed Hamrick
me with suggestions for improving VueScan in the past. I really
appreciate the many excellent suggestions I've gotten, and these
are the main reason VueScan has improved so much in the past few years.
I'd like to ask for suggestions again, but instead of asking for
suggestions for small changes to VueScan (which are always welcome),
I'd like to ask people to put on their thinking caps and think of
big-picture suggestions.
For instance, here's an idea for a revamped user interface:
http://www.hamrick.com/images/newui.jpg
What do people think of this?
Some other big-picture ideas I've had:
1) Lower prices for reflective scanners (or no watermarking for reflective
scans)
2) Make price proportional to scanner price (I don't really like this
though)
3) Lower prices for students (it's hard to do this automatically though)
4) Integrate with Mac OS X Image Capture (would this be useful?)
5) Integrate with TWAIN (might be a support nightmare though)
6) Add support for Fujitsu document scanners (not many in use though)
7) Add support for curves (can do this in Photoshop though)
8) Add support for scanning to multi-page PDF files
9) Automatic recognition of multiple snapshots on a flatbed (batch scanning)
I'd like to get other big-picture suggestions. One of the things I'm
well aware of is that my main competitor isn't SilverFast, but is the
free software that comes with most scanners. I think I need to focus
on adding capabilities to VueScan that are useful to people and that
aren't also included in the software that comes with scanners.
Please send your big-picture suggestions to (e-mail address removed)
with an e-mail subject of "Big Suggestion" and I'll summarize here.
Thanks!
Regards,
Ed Hamrick