Yes! Have voted in Worldcon site selection!

[julesjones]

After a certain amount of angst involving a week of trying to get the Sasquan credit card facility to believe I owned my US credit card (it doesn't understand the concept of a US bank card with a UK format address), I went to scan my ballot over to site selection... only to find that my elderly scanner doesn't speak Windows 8. I tried a workaround with the Win 7 driver, which failed miserably, then thought "I have an iPad". Alas, the ballot says that it must be scanned into a pdf, and my iPad speaks jpeg. Which is why I now have a free scan-to-pdf app on my iPad.

Anyway, after all that, the email has just gone on its way. Obviously my next job is going to be shopping for a new scanner, because while I haven't used the one at home since we got decent hopper feed ones at work, there are some documents I don't want anywhere near the corporate IT systems, and that includes wet signature book contracts. The last one of those was just before I ran out and bought a windows 8 machine because the XP box was creaking at the seams, which is why I hadn't realised that my scanner can now join the rest of the XP kit under the bed.

Comments

[brooksmoses]

Depending on the quality of your existing scanner, it may be worth trying out whether VueScan supports it before you ditch it. The cheapest scanner I have it only supports in combination with the scanner driver (so that would be not so much use for you), but it happily supports the others by itself.

Anyway, it's a free trial, and they've got fairly solid documentation on what quirks of what scanners it works with.

[julesjones]

Thanks for that. :-) I'll probably end up replacing it eventually. but I'd rather put that off until next financial year.

[countrygirlxxoo.livejournal.com]

If you are interested, you might wait a bit on the scanner. If you are going to upgrade your machine from Win 8 to Win 10, the scanner might work on it then since it has more of Win 7 qualities. I have Win 8.1 on a tablet, and I hate it, but I'm going to wait another month or 2 before I get the free upgrade so some of the more horrendous bugs get worked out.

[julesjones]

Thanks - that's a very useful tip. :-)

I registered for the 10 upgrade but have no intention of running it any time soon. But I also don't *need* this scanner very often, so I can probably hang on for a while before doing anything about it. Its main use these days is scanning obscure book covers to upload to LibraryThing, and I haven't had time for that for a while.

I probably ought to get a new one, if only to get one that doesn't have to be run off a US to UK power supply converter, but I hate the idea of binning a machine that works perfectly well mechanically.