Right. I've taken my old scanner, my only scanner, the one that's been hidden in a cupboard in the loft since the advent of the new millennium, out of mothballs. I dug around in my cables box and found the power cable and adaptor, plugged it in, and on came the green light. However, further digging around in the cables box failed to locate the parallel port connectors - you know, those old-fashioned ones that have 25 pins and have to be screwed into place. The scanner is ten years old, and has no USB socket. But no matter; my workplace has an even bigger cables box, and contained just what I needed.
So far so good. Trouble is, there's no sign of the driver disk. And finding the drivers on the net hasn't been as easy as I thought. It's an Artec AS6E, but all links to Artec AS6E drivers seem to involve installing some kind of driver updating exe file, which looks highly suspicious. I just want the damn driver! Oh, and whatever software is necessary to import the scans into Photoshop. I seem to remember that in the distant past, on my old PC, I had to fire up something caled 'TWAIN'? Googling for TWAIN, though, it seems that it's some kind of programming language, rather than an application I can actually use.
So. In summary, this is what I'm after:
1. The drivers for an Artec AS6E scanner, in a form that doesn't involve installing a dodgy exe file
2. Whatever application I need to get the scans from the scanner into Photoshop, possibly deploying this mysterious 'TWAIN'.
Quick. Help me now! I can't scan my pack of 1970's Oxfam Happy Families playing cards without your help.
So far so good. Trouble is, there's no sign of the driver disk. And finding the drivers on the net hasn't been as easy as I thought. It's an Artec AS6E, but all links to Artec AS6E drivers seem to involve installing some kind of driver updating exe file, which looks highly suspicious. I just want the damn driver! Oh, and whatever software is necessary to import the scans into Photoshop. I seem to remember that in the distant past, on my old PC, I had to fire up something caled 'TWAIN'? Googling for TWAIN, though, it seems that it's some kind of programming language, rather than an application I can actually use.
So. In summary, this is what I'm after:
1. The drivers for an Artec AS6E scanner, in a form that doesn't involve installing a dodgy exe file
2. Whatever application I need to get the scans from the scanner into Photoshop, possibly deploying this mysterious 'TWAIN'.
Quick. Help me now! I can't scan my pack of 1970's Oxfam Happy Families playing cards without your help.
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