Barneyscan

Barneyscan was a San Leandro, California color imaging company founded in 1986 that built one of the first high-quality 24-bit color film scanners and related graphic-arts software for the press and prepress industry. It is best known as the origin of Adobe Photoshop, whose early version 0.87 shipped bundled with Barneyscan scanners as "Barneyscan XP" before Adobe licensed it. Backed by Battery Ventures, Bay Partners, and OSCCO Ventures, the company was acquired by PixelCraft on March 1, 1993 and no longer operates. It has no live website, developer portal, or public API surface, so there is nothing for the enrichment pipeline to harvest.

Barneyscan is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Scanners, Color Imaging, Graphic Arts, and Prepress.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyScannersColor ImagingGraphic ArtsPrepressImaging SoftwareDefunctHistorical

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: barneyscan
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/barneyscan.png
name: Barneyscan
description: Barneyscan was a San Leandro, California color imaging company founded in 1986 that built one of the first high-quality
  24-bit color film scanners and related graphic-arts software for the press and prepress industry. It is best known as the
  origin of Adobe Photoshop, whose early version 0.87 shipped bundled with Barneyscan scanners as "Barneyscan XP" before Adobe
  licensed it. Backed by Battery Ventures, Bay Partners, and OSCCO Ventures, the company was acquired by PixelCraft on March
  1, 1993 and no longer operates. It has no live website, developer portal, or public API surface, so there is nothing for
  the enrichment pipeline to harvest.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/barneyscan/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- battery-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
x-status: defunct
x-status-note: Acquired by PixelCraft 1993-03-01; no live domain, API, or developer surface as of 2026-07-18.
tags:
- Company
- Scanners
- Color Imaging
- Graphic Arts
- Prepress
- Imaging Software
- Defunct
- Historical
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence