It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Artistic_Pear1834 on 2025-03-24 18:05:58.

Epson FastFoto 840 - any hotkeys or AppleScript to trigger the Start Scanning button? I am so sick of fiddling around with my mouse for each scan (batch doesn't work, old photos a zillion sizes).

I'm staring at latest family members "would you be able to scan these please" piles of albums & just can't bear the manual "mouse to start scanning-image to position then press" for days on end.

I've tried using Chatgpt to figure out how to assign a keyboard shortcut, can't find any documentation about hotkeys, can't find the button code to link to that. Anyone have any luck?

I normally use VueScan with my canon scanner, but with the Epson 840 it produces very pink scans (and I'm a standard vuescan subscriber of many years, not ponying up more cash for professional to reduce the weird red hue it's producing with this scanner - doesn't happen with the standard epson scanning app). Just need some way to start scans without needing to fiddly about with my mouse. TIA!!