# Barneyscan

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/barneyscan/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Scanners, Color Imaging, Graphic Arts, Prepress, Imaging Software, Defunct, Historical

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/barneyscan/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.