[sane-devel] how to scan a multipage document with no adf?

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:59:26PM -0500, sane-in at interlinx.bc.ca wrote:
> Hello.  I have an HP PSC 705 and am using the hpoj sane backend.  This
> unit is a flatbed scanner with no adf.  I am wondering which tool I
> can use to scan a multipage document (where I have to manually put
> each page on the bed of the scanner).  The results I want are a single
> document file with 3 pages in it.  I have looked at xsane and
> xscanimage and cannot see a way to make either do a multipage document
> without an adf.

I don't know if there is a all-in-one solution. What I usually do is
to use xsane in save mode. Use file names like image-0001.png which
are automatically incremented with each scan. Set up all options.
Insert page, press scan, insert next page... After you have finished
all pages use e.g. convert *.png final.tif.

With scanimage you could write a small shell script which generates a
file name, scans the image, waits for a key (e.g. f=finish, everything
else=scan another page), and use convert to create the final multipage
image.

Bye,
  Henning