[sane-devel] scanning an entire A4 page under commandline

[Gerhard Jaeger]

Hi,

On Wednesday 07 September 2005 18:55, Osvaldo La Rosa wrote:
> Hi Gerhard and list,
>
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 09:11:11AM +0200, Gerhard Jaeger wrote:
> >From your suggestion:
> > scanimage -x 215 -y 297 -format tiff >outputfile.tif
> > should give you the expected result.
>
> I did tried:
> scanimage -l 0 -t 0 -x 215 -y 297 -mode Gray --force tiff --resolution 175
> >output.tiff
>
> and a sighted friend told me it is okay for reading, but not for passing
> through an OCR application. Question:
>
> should I have problems with the LiDE20 if I try to push until a
> --resolution 300 ?

not that I'm aware of it - try it.

> Also is the bitrate (8) default used by the driver causing problems if
> pushed until 24 without danger?

no - but 8bit should be okay for OCR

> (anything it still scans, even after ten or twenty trials / AND from the
> console sicne this is important for me).
>
> Aldo.

-Gerhard