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Re: Viewing UMAX scanned images



On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 20:11, Gary wrote:
> Hi Doc,
> 
> --On Monday, October 13, 2003 07:58:08 PM -0500 "Robert G. (Doc) Savage" 
> <dsavage@peaknet.net> wrote:
> 
> > My dad just sent me some kind of image file he scanned with his UMAX
> > scanner connected to a W2K/Pro system. Off hand, does anyone know what
> > Linux application reads .MAX image filetypes?
> 
> Try renaming the extension to tiff see if that works. Then you can open it 
> with several graphic views or Gimp. It could be that UMAX has its own 
> format, in which it needs to be saved as a tiff file from your dad's end.

On further investigation, it appears that .MAX files are produced by
Paperport scanners, which seem to be supported only on Windows and Mac.
Does anybody know of a Linux viewer for Paperport files?

--Doc




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