AI-assisted automation of 35mm film scan post-processing
What happened
According to an October 4 report, shannadige tried using code and models to automate 35mm film scanning and post-processing. An earlier attempt to let Claude control the scanner through SANE nearly damaged the mechanism because of a wrong scan direction. The revised workflow keeps manual scanning in VueScan and applies automation to negative conversion, dust removal, tag generation and publishing: converting negatives with whole-roll color calibration, using LaMa to patch dust while keeping human review, and running Qwen3-VL locally through Ollama to generate tags.
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- Hacker News front pageAutomating my 35mm film scanning pipeline
shannadige 保留 VueScan 人工扫描，用代码与模型自动处理 35mm 胶片的负片转换、除尘、标签生成和发布。此前让 Claude 通过 SANE 控制扫描仪时，扫描方向错误险些损坏机械结构；调整后的流程以整卷色彩校准转换负片，用 LaMa 修补灰尘并保留人工审核，再由 Ollama 本地运行 Qwen3-VL 生成标签。
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