The software installer puts their prefs, samples, etc. The doc installer is very simple but wants to put everything in /Users/Shared/ which is a tad odd. *Using Suspicious Package I always peek at installer packages with SP to see what they’re up to.

Maybe looking through the manual will have something enticing enough to prod me into getting all set up. I did extract the pdfs from the documentation installer package*. I won’t install it or the epson drivers until there’s a scanner to connect to though there’s already enough cruft on my systems. It looks like silverfast might run on sierra though maybe not iSDR. This seems to be a silverfast proprietary thing, presumably it will still work well enough since the basic techniques have now been around for a long time. I missed reading all of the words on the epson driver page–“This software includes iSRD®, an Infrared Dust and Scratch Removal tool that you can use in lieu of Digital ICE”. Turns out that it doesn’t actually do ICE. Hopefully the key will work if I ever get that far I don’t need yet more accounts. They gave me an activation key, but in a different page they say you have to create an account and don’t need a key. I managed to find my serial number without excavating the closet, and it was accepted! so I downloaded silverscan se 8.8. If that doesn’t work, something is amiss somewhere.

You’ll need to download the epson drivers from the sierra compatible page, which is dated 10/13/14. Epson Scan 2 is in the mojave+ sections, and it needs mojave or later.

Silverfast vs vuescan