[sane-devel] Multi-page tiff scans... not ADF based...

[Sunil William Savkar]

I will check out the option for ADF, though I wanted to circumvent it...

I have had past problems with jams and adf.  Also, I wanted to use all of
this in the windows environment, and wanted to minimize hand manipulation
of any type.

Sunil

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 08:23:03AM -0500, Sunil William Savkar wrote:
>> However, one thing I miss that the native front end written by
>> microSuck had was the ability to scan multiple pages and generate in
>> one set of scannings a multi-page tiff.
>>
>> I could do this manually by scanning in each page and then with all
>> the resulting files create the multi-page, but this is a bit
>> laborious.
>
> I'm not sure if XSane can do this "all-in-one". But you know that you
> can use the ADF automatically with XSane: once press "start" and it
> scans until the tray is empty? At least this works for me. There is an
> option in the enhancement section to select which mode is ADF.
>
> If you use "Save mode" and file name patterns like page-0001.tiff and
> put the files into one directory you should be able to convert them to
> multipage tiff with convert (from ImageMagick) by something like this:
> convert page-*.tiff complete.tiff (untested).
>
> So it's only two commands: xasne and convert.
>
> Bye,
>  Henning
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