In article ,
nospam wrote:

In article , Russell D.
wrote:

The only thing that I can add to the mostly excellent advice already
given is to purchase VueScan. It is far superior to any of the software
that comes with scanners.

definitely.

the bundled scanner software is mostly garbage.

Possible trouble and annoyance aside, can you *really* get better
results from "superior" scanner software vs. the supplied app followed
by a good dose of Photoshop or GIMP?

Some years back when I was converting my slides, I evaluated VueScan and
some other after-market tool, but the result wasn't anything to shout
about. Just moved the effort and twiddling from post-processing to
scan-time, where (for me) it was far less convenient.

Isaac