Comments on: Scan images directly into Apple Aperture

By: Israel Yanez

Israel Yanez — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:50:42 +0000

First off, amazing thank you for posting this guide; I can’t wait to try this tonight once I get home, but my only concern is can I place multiple photos in my scanner flat bed or do I have to import an image at a time?

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:11:09 +0000

Hey, nice plugin, but this is now embeded in Image Capture, I think.
Altho its even better, because in yours plugin can set more options about the picture scan.

By: Sebastian Maier

Sebastian Maier — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 22:06:39 +0000

Danke für diesen Workflow. Sehr nützlich für mich !!!

By: talley

talley — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 03:20:28 +0000

Oh, this works fine. But then I discovered a menu entry ‘Aperture’ already present in ImageCapture (Snow Leopard). It doesn’t do the keyword tricks and else – but puts the scanned images into a Project ‘ImageCapture’.

A hint at the top of the article would be nice.

Anyway – this blog is fun to read. Thanks a lot.

By: queer-me

queer-me — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:59:12 +0000

doesn’t work, followed instructions and it just doesn’t work.

By: Dee

Dee — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:47:07 +0000

One more thing, I forgot to tell you that I have a Canon MP600. I went to the the Canon website and downloaded the newest ScanGear, but did not help.

By: Dee

Dee — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:14:21 +0000

Hi, thanks so much for your time and trouble! I followed your instructions and everything seems to go smoothly until after the picture scans. I cannot find anywhere that says save. And when I go to Iphoto the folder is there that I created in the Automator, but no picture. Have I missed something here. BTW I am running Tiger. Thanks again.

By: CaseyD

CaseyD — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:12:10 +0000

This is an excellent and concise introduction. Thank you.

I’m currently duping and tweaking a set of Automator scripts matching ‘batch’ scanning jobs. I saved a base script at a template.

By: hanabi

hanabi — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:53:35 +0000

thank you very much for this post…..now verything is o.k. with my scan canon lide 500F and Aperture…

take care and have a nice weekend hanabi

By: Henry

Henry — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:16:46 +0000

Thanks for the info. I use an Epson 2580. Its software takes over and Image Capture appears after Epson Scan has done its work so it scans twice…a slow process. I have saved the images into a project as you suggest but cannot figure how to move them out of that project and add them into other projects. If I maintain the scanned project, it means that futur images will be scanned into the same project making it cumbersome. How do I move the files into other projects? Export?

Thx

By: krema

krema — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:10:18 +0000

Antony, that's very sad. But there's one more thing you could try: The open source SANE project provides a generic TWAIN driver with support for a wide range of scanners. You can download the driver on MacUpdate and see if it works with your scanner.

By: Antony

Antony — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:55:32 +0000

Well Nikon has been heard from……

“Thank you for emailing Nikon Tech Support. Unfortunately we do not support third party applications. We have not heard of any one having success using Image Capture with this scanner. While I have heard of other third-party software recognizing the scanner like Vuescan or Silverfast, however we are not familiar with their setup here at Nikon.”

Thanks for the help but look like am now @ at a Dead End in terms of implementing your elegant Aperture Workflow!

By: krema

krema — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:51:13 +0000

I strongly suggest you to post your problems in the Apple Discussion Forums in the Using Mac OS X Tiger forum or search for it there. I bet there are other users with this scanner and they can help you much faster since I don’t have a Nikon scanner and don’t know how the Nikon software stuff works.

By: Antony

Antony — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:33:29 +0000

Krema,

Thanks for the reply, still no joy here I re-installed Nikon Scan 4.0 and upgraded it to 4.0.2 but Image capture still does see the Nikon Scanner, neither does aperture under import.
If I use import in Photoshop it pulls in the image via Nikon Scan so I know it is working.
Just havent yet been able to get Image capture or Aperture to see it.

Frustrating…..

By: krema

krema — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:25:23 +0000

Hi Antony, this should work in Tiger too. And you can follow my article to get your scanner work in Mac OS X. in this article I explain how to get the Canon LiDE 500F to work but it should require the same steps for your scanner (except you have to download the appropriate driver for your scanner from Nikon's website). Installing Nikon Scan will install the driver too which should be available system wide after that.

By: Antony

Antony — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:56:17 +0000

Can you please let me know if this works under Tiger?
and if so how to get Image Capture to recognize Nikon Supercoolscan 500….

Thanks!

By: Simon Johnson

Simon Johnson — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:12:27 +0000

Thanks for the guide. It’s my first venture into Automator and it has opened up new possibilities.

By: krema

krema — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:04:39 +0000

Hi Bill, glad my article was helpful for you. Did you add any additional actions in your Automator workflow?

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:03:47 +0000

Thanks so much for this post! I’ve been trying to figger this out for weeks! You have made my life much easier!