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onebir
Ambassador ![]() Joined: 16 October 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 116 |
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does anyone know of any free or cheap software that lets you scan multipage documents quickly, just clicking once for each page?
i'm in the process of scanning a book, and the software i've found has significant flaws: 'scanout' (http://www.autumna.com/products.htm) would be ok if it didn't use 100s of mb of memory, making it crash if i scan more than about 15 pages (on a 1gb dual core machine) and a (totally free) combination of: - 'photocopier' (http://www.nicocuppen.com), which lets you press one button to scan and print, and - PDFcreator (http://www.pdfforge.org/) which replaces your printer driver, and writes a PDF file instead (queuing up the individual scans, but saving them to disk so it doesn't hog your memory like scanout...) other suggestions welcome! |
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iieee
Newbie ![]() Joined: 04 December 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 6 |
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Related to this question: is there a FAQ or anything anywhere which
provides guidelines/ tips for the scanning process? Ie what format to
scan them in, etc.. I have a flatbed scanner.
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gdfellows
Administrator ![]() Site Creator Joined: 04 March 2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 237 |
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I have been using Adobe Acrobat scanning at 300 dpi with good results.
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jeno111
Contributor ![]() Joined: 03 July 2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 6 |
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what settings do you use in Adobe Acrobat to get a small size ? When I was scanning my file size is about 10X larger, 65Mb compared to your 6Mb. thxs |
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gdfellows
Administrator ![]() Site Creator Joined: 04 March 2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 237 |
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I select "Create PDF from scanner". Click on "Image Settings", then "Defaults". The slider between "Small Size" and "High Quality" goes to the middle, which has worked well for me.
BTW, I am using Adobe Acrobat Standard version 7.
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Will
Newbie ![]() Joined: 14 December 2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 7 |
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[Edited out information irrelevant to the topic] - Will
Edited by Will - 30 January 2007 at 10:19pm |
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DemiPuppet
Administrator ![]() Joined: 27 May 2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 163 |
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Since no operating system was mentioned, take a look at:
http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/archives/2006/01/26/scanning-to-pdf-in-linux/ Also take a look at XSane and PDFedit: http://www.xsane.org/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit/ Note: I haven't used either of these tools. I use FineReader, 300DPI, 1 bit color (B/W) and save to lossless PNG format. I then edit out any blotches with Gimp. If several files have overscan marks on one side, I'll sometimes do a batch trim using IrfanView. An average page is about 50KB, so a 500 page PDF should be no more than 25MB worst case. |
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