The scanner I use is a Genius 1200X which does a very good job of scanning most media so I can’t bring myself to blame it. The paper is standard white 75gsm copy paper which gives good contrast when used with the Genius driver.
No, I think that Scanahand is setting the scanner to grey-scale and reasonable guess of what the contrast should be but is lowering the scanner contrast to the point where the scanned pages are a sort-of mid grey. This is fair enough and, given that I have the option of using the scanner driver, is not too much of an issue. To be realistic this is a font generator not a scan engine so I guess that expecting it to be perfect for every one of the multitude of scanners out there is asking a bit much.
My problem really is access to useful information (like why the scanned images are not read correctly) without having to search the forum for it. Granted the forum is a very useful source of information but if this information was available locally in the help file I’m sure it would help first-time users like myself.
Just that one sentence “Scanahand failed to detect the template because the horizontal and vertical grid lines are interrupted.” in this forum post Scanahand is Unable to Process your Template is all the explanation that I required to get underway again. Would it hurt to include this type of information in the manual?