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If you're serious about photography, though, the professional mode will likely be your preferred choice, with the ability to adjust a wide range of settings, including saturation, color balance, and gamma (which effectively adjusts contrast differently for different levels of brightness).
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The Epson driver offers three scan modes, including a fully automatic mode that handles all the settings for you, much like a camera's point-and-shoot mode, and a home mode with minimal control over settings. You simply position the templates on the flatbed, place the film or slides in the template, and use the scan command. The unit comes with two templates-one for holding up to four 35-mm slides or two strips of 35-mm film, and one for holding 2.25-inch format film. Of course, the 4490's central purpose is to scan film, and, for a flatbed scanner, it does that very well. The bundled photo editor is Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0, a good choice for the intended audience of serious amateur photographers. There's also a business-card program, but it didn't fare well on our tests, with three or more errors in eight of the ten cards we tested.
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The bundled OCR software read both our 8-point Times New Roman and Arial font-test pages without a mistake.
The scanner also offers an optional 30-page automatic document feeder (ADF) for $200 (street), which certainly makes it more appropriate for tasks such as OCR and document management for multipage files Epson did not provide the ADF with our review unit, however.
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Like other Epson scanners, it offers a set of buttons on the front panel for scanning to e-mail, to your printer, or directly to a PDF file, or for simply opening the Epson Twain driver.
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Nevertheless, 4,800 ppi is what it offers, which makes this scanner of particular interest to photographers with a large archive of 35-mm or 2.25-inch medium format film they'd like to move into the digital age.ĭespite its focus on scanning photos, slides, and negatives, the 4490 is a good choice as an all-purpose scanner as well as a photo scanner. So while it would be overkill for a home office, to say the least, it's a great choice for any workplace where a lot of scanning is the norm.Certainly the most striking feature in the Epson Perfection 4490 Photo ($249.99 direct) is the claimed 4,800-pixel-per-inch (ppi) optical resolution-a strikingly high resolution for a flatbed scanner, and higher than you'll find even in some dedicated film scanners. In short, this is very much the Rolls Royce option of document scanners, with a price to match. The 2.7-inch touchscreen provides easy access to scan jobs, settings, and maintenance features, and you can use on-board software to turn scans into searchable PDFs. You can scan folded pages, plastic cards, sealed envelopes, passports, and more, and resolution goes up to 600 dpi. Double-feed detection prevents missing pages from being scanned, and there's a slow mode for delicate sheets too. When it comes to normal letter-sized documents, it scans in both black-and-white and colour at a speedy 70 ppm in simplex mode and 140 ipm. And that's not all: in long scan mode, it scan documents up to a whopping 12 x 220 inches (30.48 x 558.8 cm). A duplex ADF scanner with tray that holds up to 120 sheets at a time, the DS-30000 Large-Format Document Scanner can capture scans as small as 2 x 2 inches (5.08 x 5.08cm) and as large as 12 x 17 inches (30.48 x 43.18 cm). If you're running a busy office or studio, and need to scan huge numbers of documents, including large-format sizes, then this beast from Epson has you covered. You can scan documents, too, although its capabilities here are limited, so you wouldn’t want to buy this scanner for that purpose alone. But it is easy to use, it’s very affordable, and it comes with some decent image enhancement functions, allowing you to quickly enhance and restore old faded images with a click of your mouse. Unlike the pricier models on our list, you don’t get double-sided printing, there’s no Wi-Fi, and you have to feed each print in one at a time.
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While the maximum resolution of 600dpi might not be enough for pro photographers, it’s certainly good enough for the average person’s family snapshots, and the feed mechanism is gentle on your prints, so you won’t need to worry about them being damaged. This sheet-fed scanner is geared mainly towards converting printed photos to digital form, and does a very fine job of it.
Keen on scanning photos but want something a little more budget-friendly than the Epson FastFoto FF-680W? Then the Plustek ePhoto Z300 is the model for you.