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Re: [opensuse] Scanner and archiving
- From: Jos van Kan <vankan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:37:55 +0200
- Message-id: <46B0EF23.8010906@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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. :-)
Regards,
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> 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. :-)
Regards,
--
Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704
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