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Topic: good scanning software
Posted By: onebir
Subject: good scanning software
Date Posted: 13 December 2006 at 4:16pm
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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Posted By: iieee
Date Posted: 13 December 2006 at 6:49pm
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. 


Posted By: gdfellows
Date Posted: 13 December 2006 at 7:06pm
I have been using Adobe Acrobat scanning at 300 dpi with good results. 


Posted By: jeno111
Date Posted: 14 December 2006 at 10:26am
Originally posted by gdfellows

I have been using Adobe Acrobat scanning at 300 dpi with good results. 


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



Posted By: gdfellows
Date Posted: 14 December 2006 at 10:47am
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.
 


Posted By: Will
Date Posted: 14 December 2006 at 2:21pm
[Edited out information irrelevant to the topic] - Will


Posted By: DemiPuppet
Date Posted: 15 December 2006 at 10:19am
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/ - 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://www.xsane.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit/ - 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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