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

[Ulrich Deiters]

The TIFF standard supports multiple images in one file, but
a) not every TIFF reader can handle this. First make sure that your
   image viewer (or that of the mail recipient) can handle multi-image
   TIFF.
b) the typical TIFF compression schemes (Packbits, LZW) are good for
   lineart only. For colour photos you need TIFF JPEG, but again, this
   cannot be handled by all viewers.

PDF can handle multi-page documents with images, but the compression
of colour graphics is not always good. See one of the previous discussion
threads of this forum on how to produce PDFs.

In short: Much depends on whether you want to scan colour photos or
monochrome blueprints.

Regards,

Ulrich Deiters