The ArcSoft PhotoStudio is a great Photoshop knock-off but hey, it’s free. It has the best text recognition accuracy of all OCR software at the moment excluding Tesseract which is an API and does tend to perform better sometimes. The Epson Easy Photo Fix gives you the option to do automatic photo enhancement with one click like auto crop and deskew, without fiddling through the settings and the ABBYY FineReader converts JPEG, Bitmaps and TIFF files to searchable PDFs or Word Documents. The software package in the box with the Epson Perfection v600 color photo image film scanner includes: Epson Easy Photo Fix (image enhancing and photo editing software), Epson Copy Utility, ArcSoft PhotoStudio, ABBYY FineReader Sprint Plus OCR. Scratches and dust isn’t such a big problem on scanned photos but on film, you have to remember that the image will be enlarged so they become much more noticeable. It also has some Digital ICE features to remove scratches and dust from them. The scanning software that is bundled with the Epson V600 is compatible with the holders, it will detect the frames, crop them and adjust the orientation. If you check prices on Amazon you’ll see that they are cheaper too. Here is a tip: Since the scanner comes with only one set of film holders for slides and negatives, if you want to batch scan you can get after-market film holders on Amazon so that when one batch is being scanned you load the other. It comes with 2 film holders so that you can scan photos on 35mm film negatives and also 35mm slides. You can scan film negatives with this photo and document scanner on your Mac using the included transparency unit. Then there is the fast scanning speed: It can scan an A4 photo at 300 dpi in about 6 seconds which makes it a fast flatbed scanner. Obviously it has an LED lamp for scanning so that it doesn’t warm up. When you scan in color, you’ll get a color depth of 48-bit and 16-bit for grayscale scanning. It is compatible with the latest version of Mac OS (OS X El Capitan, Sierra, Mojave and Catalina). That is the kind of resolution you find on high-end scanners that cost 3-4 times as much. It has a CCD Sensor like Most Epson Scanners that can output digital images at an optical resolution of 6400 DPI. It might miss the good stuff on connectivity but it doesn’t let down in other areas.įirst, there is the quality. None of the flatbed scanners have a lightning port either. It will connect to your Mac through a USB 2.0 port, so if you have a 2019 or 2020 Macbook Pro or Air, then you need to connect it through an adapter from Thunderbolt port to the regular-size USB. The Epson Perfection V600 is one of the perfect flatbed scanners for Mac.

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