Scanner help/suggestions (was: LCC3 and K'tl ê)

Jeff Jones' question--

 does anyone
> know how I can get something
> >> that can convert .BMP to .GIF or .PNG and runs on
> Windows 98? And
> >> doesn't cost me anything?
reminded me of my problem: I used to have a Visioneer scanner (back in W98 days)
that created .max files of several pictures/maps. These will not now open in MS
Paint.

Now I have a Canon scanner-- bought on Ebay, supposedly NIB but you never know
with Ebay..... It worked OK with a previous XP system though it was more complex
than the old Visioneer and I never quite got the hang of it-- and it seemed to
slow my current XP system down terribly, so I've uninstalled it. During the time
it was installed, I didn't think to try it on the old Visioneer stuff. Would it
have converted .max to something usable (e.g. bmp or jpg) that I could see/work
on?

Should I try installing it again? Did I possibly do something wrong? It seemed to
require an awful lot of memory, perhaps there are things there I don't need

Or should I try a new Visioneer? Or something else that doesn't cost an arm+leg........

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