Best Scanner to scan autographs?

[alifaxwa2]

Your using an Epson, your epson software that came with the scanner should be able to do it. Don't use Full Auto Mode and you shouldn't have any problems.

[RichardSimon]

Originally Posted by alifaxwa2

Your using an Epson, your epson software that came with the scanner should be able to do it. Don't use Full Auto Mode and you shouldn't have any problems.

Jeff,
I just got an Epson and am happy with it.
What mode is the best to use to accomplish this, there are three other options.

[alifaxwa2]

Originally Posted by RichardSimon

Jeff,
I just got an Epson and am happy with it.
What mode is the best to use to accomplish this, there are three other options.

My Epson is 13 yo, but should be similar.
Pretty sure home mode works for it. What you want is the ability to bring up a preview scan then box select the places you want scanned.

[Lordstan]

I have an Epson, but I don't think the Epson software can scan them all separately all at once. I think you still have to scan each item separately which is time consuming. If the scanner could make one pass and break apart the image automatically into multiple images that would be ideal.

I will be trying the Ransen software tonight and will report back what I find.

[Lordstan]

OK. I just tried the Ransen scan and it was pretty impressive.

I placed 6 cards on my scanner. When I hit scan, it found 6 sub images on the scanner and separated them on the right side. By double clicking on the images on the right I was allowed to edit each sub image independently( the bottom photo).
The second button from right(along the top) is save all sub images. Another window pops up(the second photo below) that allows you to name the folder and the image. Once you finish that, you can either save just that photo and move onto the next for different setting or save them all with the same name except for a number added to the end of the name( see third image).
Very fast and very easy. Trial version puts a watermark on photos(photo 4).

I don't think my epson software can do this.

[DaClyde]

If you go into Tools > Settings, there is an option to rotate all of the scans, which is very handy for scanning sports cards. I think the software was mostly created with photos in mind, hence everything being scanned "sideways" from the perspective of the typical collector.

[Lordstan]

Thanks Jason. I looked around in the settings a bit and saw that, but didn't try it out yet. Nice call on this software. It looks really functional for card scanning.

[RichardSimon]

Jeff,
Thanks for getting back to me.