[opensuse] Scanner and archiving
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. Something like this. 1. Set some settings, page size, PDF settings etc - Save 2. Place page 1, press Scan 3. Place page 2, press Scan 4. dito 5. etc 6. Press Stop 7. Prompt for Filename 7. Save pages as one doc as PDF. 8. Goto 2. Anyone know of something or should I start learning how to write Kommander dialogs (I guess most of this can be done with commandline apps, just need a easy-to-use(TM) interface) E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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. If you need you can always convert docs from TIFF/JPEG to PDF. -- k -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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.
If you need you can always convert docs from TIFF/JPEG to PDF.
Or, just scan into Writer and then export to PDF. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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.
If your scanner is supported, then everything you need is available. Here's a script to get you started: #!/bin/sh echo "Insert page on scanner..." read p echo "Scanning..." scanimage --resolution 300 > page.pnm echo "Making PostScript file..." convert -density 300 page.pnm page.ps echo "Converting to PDF..." ps2pdf page.ps $1.pdf # Cleanup... rm page.pnm page.ps echo "Done!" convert is part of the Image Magic package. ps2pdf is, if I recall correctly, part of the Ghostscript package. I don't recall where scanimage comes from, but you probably already have it. If you have multiple pages you want to end up in one PDF file, scan them as page1.pnm, page2.pnm, page3.pnm, etc. until you have them all, then use 'convert -density 300 page*.pnm page.ps' to build the intermediate PostScript file out of them. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 23:53 -0500, David Gersic 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.
If your scanner is supported, then everything you need is available. Here's a script to get you started:
#!/bin/sh echo "Insert page on scanner..." read p echo "Scanning..." scanimage --resolution 300 > page.pnm
echo "Making PostScript file..." convert -density 300 page.pnm page.ps
echo "Converting to PDF..." ps2pdf page.ps $1.pdf
# Cleanup... rm page.pnm page.ps
echo "Done!"
convert is part of the Image Magic package. ps2pdf is, if I recall correctly, part of the Ghostscript package. I don't recall where scanimage comes from, but you probably already have it.
If you have multiple pages you want to end up in one PDF file, scan them as page1.pnm, page2.pnm, page3.pnm, etc. until you have them all, then use 'convert -density 300 page*.pnm page.ps' to build the intermediate PostScript file out of them.
Ok, so the answer is to start looking into Kommander and roll my own. Thanks for the script. Writer or Kooka or xSane cant do multi page scan - well the last time I checked. And Kooka saves/prints horribly to PDF. Thanks E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 01 August 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
convert is part of the Image Magic package. ps2pdf is, if I recall correctly, part of the Ghostscript package. I don't recall where scanimage comes from, but you probably already have it.
If you have multiple pages you want to end up in one PDF file, scan them as page1.pnm, page2.pnm, page3.pnm, etc. until you have them all, then use 'convert -density 300 page*.pnm page.ps' to build the intermediate PostScript file out of them.
Ok, so the answer is to start looking into Kommander and roll my own. Thanks for the script.
Writer or Kooka or xSane cant do multi page scan - well the last time I checked. And Kooka saves/prints horribly to PDF.
Thanks
**************** Hi, Take a look to see if the file "cups-pdf" is available on SuSE's mirrors. If not you may want to compile it yourself. It's very handy, in that it lets you create a Virtual pdf printer you can just select from any printer dialog and print the document directly to a good pdf file. Acroread can read the file most excellent as do the other pdf readers. When setting it up, you want to choose Postscript as the brand & model of printer. Makes printing to pdf very handy & easy from your programs. have fun, Lee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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. Ken -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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