Ways to reduce scan times with Silverfast

[PanosK]

Hello,

I'm using Silverfast SE for some time now & I am quite happy with the software (the scanner is a Plustek), still my biggest (by far) wish would be on how to reduce scan times. More specifically, for a normal 35mm scan at 3500dpi it takes me 1' while if I go to 4,000 dpi (my prefered setting) to more than 3' per scan. I'm wondering what are ways to reduce this, I'm thinking things like:
- Adding more RAM memory to my computer
- Increasing the SWAP memory in the computer etc.

Ofcourse I'm running Silverfast stand-alone & with the less load from other software to the computer I can.

I have 2 questions:
(1) What is the minimum scan time I can achieve (roughly), I mean can I massively reduce it from the above 1' & 3' times?
(2) what are ways to do so?

many thx in advance!

Panos

[LSI_Ketelhohn]

Deaer Panos,

The scan time itself is purely hardware based.
What can be reduced is the time used up by tools like iSRD, GANE, DeScreening, etc..
For one these tools for one processing power is relevant but also the used workflow.
Regarding to workflow we offer the archive suite which allows the processing of HDR(i) raw images.
This takes the processing away from the scan and allows to do it offline in a batch run.

kind regards,
Arne Ketelhohn.

[PanosK]

Many thx for your answer. I'm looking exactly for these hardware improvements that would reduce scan times. I already do quite a bit of processing in batch mode, so my focus is getting the scan faster than today, could you offer some pointers in-terms of what could offer the most (I'm currently running Vista with 1527MB RAM & a Celeron processor at 1.86GHz), many thx in advance,

Panos