Re: [opensuse] Scanner and archiving

[Jos van Kan]

Ken Schneider schreef:
> On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 15:36 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote:
>> On Tue, July 31, 2007 6:58 am, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
>>> I have a lot of semi-useful documents that I want to archive using my
>>> flatbed scanner.
>>>
>>> Im willing to manually place each piece of paper on the scanner but
>>> need
>>> some software to manage the capture - bind - output to PDF part.
>>
>> Use Adobe Acrobat Pro for Windows?
>>
>> (Sorry!)
>>
>> I would try XSane/Kooka then save as PDF. IIRC, that works fine.
> 
> I use xsane to scan multiple pages into 1 pdf doc. Works slick.

At what resolution? I tried to do this at 150 dpi and the pdf's came out next to
illegible, whereas a jpg not only was much sharper but also used up far less
space. So again YMMV I guess. :-)

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Re: [opensuse] Scanner and archiving

[Ken Schneider]

On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 15:36 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote:
> On Tue, July 31, 2007 6:58 am, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
> >
> > I have a lot of semi-useful documents that I want to archive using my
> > flatbed scanner.
> >
> > Im willing to manually place each piece of paper on the scanner but
> > need
> > some software to manage the capture - bind - output to PDF part.
> 
> 
> Use Adobe Acrobat Pro for Windows?
> 
> (Sorry!)
> 
> I would try XSane/Kooka then save as PDF. IIRC, that works fine.

I use xsane to scan multiple pages into 1 pdf doc. Works slick.

Ken

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Re: [opensuse] Scanner and archiving

[BandiPat]

On Wednesday 01 August 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
> > convert is part of the Image Magic package. ps2pdf is, if I recall
> > correctly, part of the Ghostscript package. I don't recall where
> > scanimage comes from, but you probably already have it.
> >
> > If you have multiple pages you want to end up in one PDF file, scan
> > them as page1.pnm, page2.pnm, page3.pnm, etc. until you have them
> > all, then use 'convert -density 300 page*.pnm page.ps' to build the
> > intermediate PostScript file out of them.
>
> Ok, so the answer is to start looking into Kommander and roll my own.
> Thanks for the script.
>
> Writer or Kooka or xSane cant do multi page scan - well the last time
> I checked.
> And Kooka saves/prints horribly to PDF.
>
> Thanks


Hi,
Take a look to see if the file "cups-pdf" is available on SuSE's 
mirrors.  If not you may want to compile it yourself.  It's very handy, 
in that it lets you create a Virtual pdf printer you can just select 
from any printer dialog and print the document directly to a good pdf 
file.  Acroread can read the file most excellent as do the other pdf 
readers.

When setting it up, you want to choose Postscript as the brand & model 
of printer.  Makes printing to pdf very handy & easy from your 
programs.

have fun,
Lee
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Re: [opensuse] Scanner and archiving

[Hans van der Merwe]

On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 23:53 -0500, David Gersic wrote:
> On Tue, July 31, 2007 6:58 am, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
> > I have a lot of semi-useful documents that I want to archive using my
> > flatbed scanner.
> >
> > Im willing to manually place each piece of paper on the scanner but
> > need
> > some software to manage the capture - bind - output to PDF part.
> 
> If your scanner is supported, then everything you need is available. Here's a 
> script to get you started:
> 
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "Insert page on scanner..."
> read p
> echo "Scanning..."
> scanimage --resolution 300 > page.pnm
> 
> echo "Making PostScript file..."
> convert -density 300 page.pnm page.ps
> 
> echo "Converting to PDF..."
> ps2pdf page.ps $1.pdf
> 
> # Cleanup...
> rm page.pnm page.ps
> 
> echo "Done!"
> 
> 
> convert is part of the Image Magic package. ps2pdf is, if I recall correctly, 
> part of the Ghostscript package. I don't recall where scanimage comes from, 
> but you probably already have it.
> 
> If you have multiple pages you want to end up in one PDF file, scan them as 
> page1.pnm, page2.pnm, page3.pnm, etc. until you have them all, then use 
> 'convert -density 300 page*.pnm page.ps' to build the intermediate PostScript 
> file out of them.
> 
> 


Ok, so the answer is to start looking into Kommander and roll my own.
Thanks for the script.

Writer or Kooka or xSane cant do multi page scan - well the last time I
checked.
And Kooka saves/prints horribly to PDF.

Thanks




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Re: [opensuse] Scanner and archiving

[David Gersic]

On Tue, July 31, 2007 6:58 am, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
> I have a lot of semi-useful documents that I want to archive using my
> flatbed scanner.
>
> Im willing to manually place each piece of paper on the scanner but
> need
> some software to manage the capture - bind - output to PDF part.

If your scanner is supported, then everything you need is available. Here's a 
script to get you started:


#!/bin/sh
echo "Insert page on scanner..."
read p
echo "Scanning..."
scanimage --resolution 300 > page.pnm

echo "Making PostScript file..."
convert -density 300 page.pnm page.ps

echo "Converting to PDF..."
ps2pdf page.ps $1.pdf

# Cleanup...
rm page.pnm page.ps

echo "Done!"


convert is part of the Image Magic package. ps2pdf is, if I recall correctly, 
part of the Ghostscript package. I don't recall where scanimage comes from, 
but you probably already have it.

If you have multiple pages you want to end up in one PDF file, scan them as 
page1.pnm, page2.pnm, page3.pnm, etc. until you have them all, then use 
'convert -density 300 page*.pnm page.ps' to build the intermediate PostScript 
file out of them.


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Re: [opensuse] Scanner and archiving

[James Knott]

Kai Ponte wrote:
> On Tue, July 31, 2007 6:58 am, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
>   
>> I have a lot of semi-useful documents that I want to archive using my
>> flatbed scanner.
>>
>> Im willing to manually place each piece of paper on the scanner but
>> need
>> some software to manage the capture - bind - output to PDF part.
>> 
>
>
> Use Adobe Acrobat Pro for Windows?
>
> (Sorry!)
>
> I would try XSane/Kooka then save as PDF. IIRC, that works fine.
>
> If you need you can always convert docs from TIFF/JPEG to PDF.
>
>   
Or, just scan into Writer and then export to PDF.


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Re: [opensuse] Scanner and archiving

[Kai Ponte]

On Tue, July 31, 2007 6:58 am, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
>
> I have a lot of semi-useful documents that I want to archive using my
> flatbed scanner.
>
> Im willing to manually place each piece of paper on the scanner but
> need
> some software to manage the capture - bind - output to PDF part.


Use Adobe Acrobat Pro for Windows?

(Sorry!)

I would try XSane/Kooka then save as PDF. IIRC, that works fine.

If you need you can always convert docs from TIFF/JPEG to PDF.

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