
Besides the Adobe Photoshop software that came with the scanner, it was also extremely helpful in restoring some As a result of the "ice feature", my slides actually looked worse as a result. The above mode is the one that seems to work best for me after trying several different modes. The software allows you to convert four slides simultaneously and with the settings of dust removal, color restoration, and 800DPI, it takes about seven minutes to convert four slides The time it takes me to present four slides is 10 minutes. It has taken me a few months to get around to converting all of my slides "up to about 2000". I am able to use it as well as the software that comes with my Windows 7 laptop.



Providing excellent value for the price, this Epson Perfection 4490 Photo Scanner has been a wonderful scanner for me to use for converting slides to digital images. The OCR capabilities of the Canon PDF scanners are built into the scanning software included with the. This Epson scanner comes with some decent scanning and complementary software that allows users to choose between default settings or use a professional mode where they can fine-tune their settings for more tailored When I purchased that canner, it came bundled with Adobe Photoshop Elements (an excellent program, quite similar to Photoshop), and ABBY OCR software (which I have never used because I am using Nevertheless, it would have been helpful if Epson had integrated a decent OCR engine into its scanner software, so one isn't forced to process the resulting PDF files through another program every time. There is, of course, the more efficient way of transferring slides to digital form, which is to use a service that can do it, or be using a scanner specifically for slides. This scanner has been used to make black and white slides, and the results are variable, but you can't expect them to look as good as the old Kodachrome slides, so the photos need more editing than the printed photo scans to be usable. As for color photos, the scanned file matches closely to the prints, but not as close as you'd like, so if you'd like the file to appear closer to the prints, then you'll need to tweak it with photo editing software. The issuance of black-and-white and color PDFs and graphics formats, and the printing of photos from time to time. I use this Epson scanner a lot for scanning documents to black and white at home where most of my use is scanning to black and white. About seven years ago, I bought this item back in 2011 to replace an older Epson model that had expired, and it is still running fine.
