[TAG] [Edgar_Howell at web.de: response to article on scanning]

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

Here's a juicy item for the Mailbag.

----- Forwarded message from Edgar Howell <Edgar_Howell at web.de> -----

Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 05:10:55 +0100
From: Edgar Howell <Edgar_Howell at web.de>
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To: editor at Linux Gazette <editor at linuxgazette.net>
Subject: response to article on scanning
Sender: Edgar_Howell at web.de

Greetings,                                            2005-12-29

My article on scanning drew responses from a couple of readers, one,
Emil Gorter, who copied you and whose suggestion I find well-done
and certainly worth making available for those wanting to archive
scans.

And Juhan Leemet politely pointed out that XSANE does, indeed,
have the function that I really wanted for use as a copier.  He
had a problem with it that he hadn't had time to resolve and I
then had the same for which I did find a work-around.  It is
tantamount to using your brakes instead of taking your foot off
the gas, so I don't want to suggest it to anyone.

But the bottom line is that using XSANE to copy directly from scanner
to printer can work quite nicely.

ech


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From: Emil Gorter <emil at ripe.net>
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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:15:45 +0100
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Hi Edgar,


I read your article http://linuxgazette.net/121/howell.html and it 
reminded me of a problem I had faced.  For my work I had to figure 
out a way to scan and store contracts digitally.  
The file-size issue was quite interesting with ++6000 pages to go :-)

I found that creating PDFs is quite easy, and gives very good 
results.  Nice quality, great reduction in size.  Example:

 $ tiff2ps -2 -a Scan0001.tif | ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 - > Scan0001.pdf
 $ ls -1 --size -h Scan0001.*
 1.1M Scan0001.pdf
  25M Scan0001.tif


By the way, for practical reasons the scans were made with a Windows 
machine..  Still have to try SANE myself someday.

I hope this helps!

Emil Gorter



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