[sane-devel] unpaper 0.3 released

2007-12-31 Thread Jens Gulden
Collins. - Removed modes 'single-rotated' and 'double-rotated' for parameter --layout, use --pre-rotate instead. - Added --pre-shift and --post-shift options. - Added --sheet-background option. ...and more. Enjoy and have a happy 2008, Jens Gulden

[sane-devel] pdf

2007-10-30 Thread Jens Gulden
Hi Steve, it starts scanning the next page like clock-work, before I've had a chance to change the page on the scanner. What program are you using? What OS? Command-line/GUI? In case you're on Linux/command-line, you may want to look at the script I use to scan multiple pages in sequence.

[sane-devel] pdf (double-side scanning via adf)

2007-10-30 Thread Jens Gulden
-side batch. echo -e ${red}ABORTING now, please fix an run $0 again. exit 1 fi fi done ### script end ### Jens Gulden mail at jensgulden.de wrote: Hi, In case you're on Linux/command-line, you may want to look at the script I use to scan multiple pages

[sane-devel] Descreen feature

2007-07-27 Thread Jens Gulden
Ren? Rebe wrote: You can use ImageMagick, ExactImage, Gimp, etc. to perform those tasks. You also might want to take a look at unpaper: http://unpaper.berlios.de/ The algorithms used in unpaper are still very simple (some kind of blurring, a noise-filter, black-area removal, auto-rotation,

[sane-devel] [Announce] JSane

2006-12-15 Thread Jens Gulden
. Also another problem I have with the MFC3420C (see http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2006-July/017297.html) did not occur with the LiDE30. best Jens Jens Gulden schrieb: Hello Andi, nice work. Just to mention: when I run ScanPage (with the server-name and options

[sane-devel] [Announce] JSane

2006-12-04 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello Andi, nice work. Just to mention: when I run ScanPage (with the server-name and options adopted to my setup), there seems to be a problem with device.close(). The first time, the image gets scanned correctly and is shown in the JFrame which pops up, but a second run fails with:

[sane-devel] tiff2pdf script or sample

2006-10-31 Thread Jens Gulden
Tom Miller schrieb: Does any one have any information on how to use tiff2pdf so that it will combine mulitple files into one file and convert to pdf? Thanks much, Tom Use tiffcp to combine multiple tiffs to one, e.g. tiffcp page1.tiff page2.tiff page3.tiff allpages.tiff (or just

[sane-devel] truncated image data when scanning via network

2006-07-20 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello sane people, I have started using saned and network-scanning instead of connecting the scanner/printer locally via USB. Unfortunately, the maximum size to scan is 210mm x 293mm for blackwhite scans, which is almost a full-sized A4 image (210mm x 297mm). Attempts to scan larger sizes

[sane-devel] Release of JSane

2006-06-21 Thread Jens Gulden
Andi McLean wrote: I've finally released a new version of JSane. At which URL? If it's www.jsane.com, I cannot find any 'download'-link there, unfortunately. jsane-net.sourceforge.net shows an error. bye Jens Hi, Not sure if anyone is interested, but I've finally released a new version

[sane-devel] [ANN] unpaper 0.2 - post-processing scanned and photocopied book pages

2006-05-10 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello, unpaper is a post-processing tool for scanned sheets of paper, especially for book pages that have been scanned from previously created photocopies. Besides new support for color-scans, speed optimization for deskewing and a number of bug fixes, version 0.2 now also comes with a

[sane-devel] unpaper pre-0.2 release candidate, please test

2006-05-01 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello SANE people, there had been very valuable feedback from this list after I had released the first version of unpaper (http://unpaper.berlios.de/), so I would like to let you know about a new version that will be released soon. The very first version had some problems with the compiler's

[sane-devel] JNI code for SANE

2006-01-25 Thread Jens Gulden
Any URL to take a look at it? Jens Vacuum Joe schrieb: Hello SANE developers, I have written a simple JNI interface to SANE. It works pretty well and lets me do scans, display them, etc, all within Java. I am interested in possibly getting this included in the SANE project under the

[sane-devel] Re: [ANN] unpaper 1.1 update

2005-10-06 Thread Jens Gulden
.) ...finally, let me apologize for the late answer. I have been moving to a new home in the past weeks, so I didn't have time for this. hth Jens Janusz S. Bie? schrieb: On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 Jens Gulden m...@jensgulden.de wrote: Hello, unpaper version 1.1 has been released. unpaper

[sane-devel] [ANN] unpaper 1.1 update

2005-08-28 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello, unpaper version 1.1 has been released. unpaper is a tool for post-processing scanned book pages. Some new features at a glance: - Combine single-page scans to 2-page layout output. - Resize to specific sheet sizes ('a4', 'letter', ...), zoom, stretch. - Optimized speed of the

[sane-devel] [ANN] unpaper 1.1 update

2005-08-28 Thread Jens Gulden
Janusz S. Bie? schrieb: - Resize to specific sheet sizes ('a4', 'letter', ...), zoom, stretch. Can this feature be used to actually reduce the resolution of scanned pages? You can set the output sheet to a specific size with the desired dpi resolution, e.g. --dpi 300 --size a4 In that

[sane-devel] Re: Unpaper 1.0.1 problem

2005-06-21 Thread Jens Gulden
Janusz S. Bien schrieb: The original scans converted to DjVu DjVu looks interesting (http://www.djvuzone.org/). Thanks for that hint, I didn't know it before. Although the processing improved the images in some respects, in general the result seems to me less readable then the original. The

[sane-devel] Re: Unpaper 1.0.1 problem

2005-06-14 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello, Janusz S. Bien wrote: I hoped the processing will result in the better centering of them, as my primary goal is to split double pages into single ones. I can make the input and output files available if you would like to have a look at them. That's a good idea, please send some

[sane-devel] Re: Unpaper 1.0.1 problem

2005-06-12 Thread Jens Gulden
Janusz S. Bien wrote: *** error: Input file format using magic 'P2' is unknown. PGM and PBM files (generally, PNM files) can be written in two possible modes: 'ascii' and 'binary'. (See e.g. http://www.csit.fsu.edu/~burkardt/data/pnm/pnm.html) Unpaper supports BINARY mode only, because this

[sane-devel] good adf scanners

2005-06-07 Thread Jens Gulden
Brad Barnett schrieb: Does anyone have any suggestions for a well supported ADF scanner, under Linux? The SANE support list doesn't specify such things in the summary, which makes it more difficult to pick a good one.. Any tales of success and words of wonder are welcome! See the

[sane-devel] Good office scanners with ADF support?

2005-06-03 Thread Jens Gulden
Philip J. Hollenback schrieb: So in your opinion if I just use this as a scanner with ADF it will work great? Yes, for _scanning_ I think so, see below. It won't stop working as a scanner if the ink cartridges run out, will it? Today Magenta ran out again (the second time since I

[sane-devel] Good office scanners with ADF support?

2005-06-02 Thread Jens Gulden
Philip J. Hollenback wrote: This scanner is destined to replace a fax machine and so must have and automatic document feeder capable of holding 50 sheets. It also needs to work with a linux system My private scanner and printer is a Brother MFC 3420C

[sane-devel] Good office scanners with ADF support?

2005-06-02 Thread Jens Gulden
Philip J. Hollenback schrieb: My private scanner and printer is a Brother MFC 3420C However, I am a bit concerned by the reviews on the Amazon page for this printer: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/BCA162/102-0416636-9700117?v=glance There it says e.g.: The self-clean

[sane-devel] Plustek OpticBook 3600 supported?

2005-05-03 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello, Jon Niehof schrieb: http://www.sane-project.org/unsupported/plustek-opticbook-3600.html and links from that page. Sorry, I only looked at the 'CVS'-section of 'Supported Devices',=20 thinking this would give me the most complete list... I just sent a mail to Plustek, as part of my work

[sane-devel] Plustek OpticBook 3600 supported?

2005-05-02 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello, does anybody know if the 'Plustek OpticBook 3600' (http://www.plustek.com/products/book.htm) is supported by one of the existing backends? Any experiences with that device? Thank you, Jens

[sane-devel] unpaper default parameter - empty output bug

2005-03-14 Thread Jens Gulden
: In function `getPixel': [exec] unpaper.c:653: warning: unused parameter `type' I will make an update version 1.0.1 out of the new code and will announce it to this list soon. Kind regards, Bertrik Thanks and groetjes Jens Bertrik Sikken schrieb: Jens Gulden wrote: Bertrik Sikken wrote

[sane-devel] [ANN] Unpaper 1.0.1 update released

2005-03-14 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello, an updated version of unpaper is available at: http://download.berlios.de/unpaper/unpaper-1_0_1.tgz This hopefully fixes problems that occurred on some platforms with optimized binary executables, and some other minor issues. For a full overview on unpaper, see

[sane-devel] unpaper default parameter - empty output bug

2005-03-12 Thread Jens Gulden
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --040505090908050901030503 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bertrik Sikken wrote: I'm working on a patch and I'll post it when I'm done at:

[sane-devel] unpaper endianess

2005-03-11 Thread Jens Gulden
Julien BLACHE wrote: Unpaper seems to have endianness issues; Are you using 1-bit-per-pixel input or output files (i.e. .pbm, not .pgm)? The only place where I would ad-hoc suspect an endianess issue is when the single bits are accessed during conversion from/to 1-bit images... Is it exactly

[sane-devel] unpaper default parameters

2005-03-11 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello, Peter Fales wrote: I get white pages as output on my i686 machine unless I use --no-border-scan. I haven't analyzed why - and I'm not sure whether running unpaper with all default arguments is even expected to work. You're right, the default parameters are NOT expected to always

[sane-devel] unpaper default parameters

2005-03-11 Thread Jens Gulden
Can you attach a sample-image? Peter Fales schrieb: The images I'm working with are faxes, so they are typically 1680x2200 pbm (1 bit per pixel) image files. I wasn't specifying --layout, but adding --layout single didn't seem to help. Since my pixels are all black or white, I don't think

[sane-devel] unpaper default parameter - empty output bug

2005-03-11 Thread Jens Gulden
Peter Fales schrieb: Now that's wierd. I was using a privately built copy of unpaper, but I just unpacked the tarball and get the same results with the prebuilt binary! I just reproduced the problem on one remote Intel machine I have access to. Try to compile without any optimization (no

[sane-devel] [ANN] Unpaper - post-processing scanned book-pages

2005-03-06 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello all, Gerard Klaver wrote: My proposal/idea would be te place it in a sane-tools package. This would be a new package with for the time being only the unpaper program. (...) I had the idea that Jens (the developer of the unpaper program) is also the maintainer for unpaper in SANE CVS.

[sane-devel] [ANN] Unpaper - post-processing scanned book-pages

2005-03-02 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello, unpaper removes black edges and other photocopy artefacts from scanned images. It also deskews book pages (auto-rotates them to a straight alignment), and centers them on the sheet. Old photocopies can become well-readable PDFs again. Available at http://unpaper.berlios.de/. Hope it's

[sane-devel] Best choice for an ADF

2005-02-15 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello, Seb schrieb: I need to buy an ADF-capable scanner; Some time ago I was looking for one, too, and I ended up in buying a Fax-Copy-Scan-Printer with an ADF (originally for 'multi-page-fax'). It is of course not a professional scanner, but fully serves my purposes, which is scanning