On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 13:40 -0600, John Lange wrote:
I'm looking for a straight forward scanning solution for use under gnome.
As far as I can tell, XSane is the only thing around (and it's horrible).
I've managed to create sane command line options and assign them to icons for most of what I want to do and simple functions like; scan multi-page to PDF, scan multi-page to email are now a "one-click" solution.
The problem is with flat-bed scanning which requires the user to "preview" the scan and then select an area for scanning before completing the operation. I see no alternative than to fire up the full X-Sane front end which is what I'm hoping to avoid.
I know there is a more comprehensive scanning solution under KDE (which I can't recall the name of) but it also doesn't really do what I want and in any case it is way over-kill.
If anyone is aware of a very simple, straight forward scanning system that provides the following 4 options:
multi-page to PDF multi-page to email (PDF attachment) flatbed to PDF flatbed to email (PDF or JPG attachment)
please let me know.
Regards, -- John Lange www.johnlange.ca John,
I do a lot of scanning and I use vuescan. It is the only pro scanning application under linux I have found. For my use is the best for any platform. You requirements are pretty simple. xsane can do it. Vuescan does automatic selection or semiautomatic or manual. If I have many slides at the same time and are all the same size and orientation can do it all automatically or you can adjust the first one and the rest will be similar or you can adjust one at the time. This is great. xsane of course can not scan all at the same time so it is time consuming. There are a zillion of other choices. Another important feature is that xsane requires that the scanner is supported by sane, vuescan does not. -=terry=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org