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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / October 2006Software for scanning documents
I need to scan some manuals, to produce pdf files. (I don't need OCR, just ordinary scans.) The software from HP that came with my scanner is mind-bogglingly bad. As far as I can tell, it will only display the preview of the first page of a document. So if you are scanning a 200 page manual, you have to wait for it all to be scanned before you find out how well it came out, and whether you clipped the side of page 84, ... And sometimes, after you've scanned a long document, the software crashes while saving the pdf file, obliterating all of the work. It's also not good at adjusting the quality of the scanned images to control the size of the document. (A 200 page document typically comes in at over 50 MB, if you don't work hard to prevent that.) I just need a simple piece of software for scanning long documents, written by people with double or triple digit IQs. Any suggestions? > I need to scan some manuals, to produce pdf files. (I don't need > OCR, just ordinary scans.) [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > I just need a simple piece of software for scanning long documents, > written by people with double or triple digit IQs. Any suggestions? Golly! If I were doing this, I would want to do one page at a time and later stitch all together myself... I would not trust any process that did the lot and pdfd too... You still have to stand there and turn the pages and wait... Acrobat can stitch tifs together...  Signaturedorayme >> I need to scan some manuals, to produce pdf files. (I don't need >> OCR, just ordinary scans.) [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Acrobat can stitch tifs together... If you scan as black and white (not grayscale) you can scan at a reasonably high resolution then use Graphics Converter to compress with CCITT 4 to get a small file without losing detail. > In article <LY2dnQLisqCvSazYnZ2dnUVZ_rOdnZ2d@comcast.com>, ... > Golly! If I were doing this, I would want to do one page at a > time and later stitch all together myself... I would not trust > any process that did the lot and pdfd too... You still have to > stand there and turn the pages and wait... > > Acrobat can stitch tifs together... Sure, this would be much preferable. The issue is what software to use to do this. The HP software doesn't let you do this without restarting the whole process, telling the program you want to save to a file rather than send a fax, etc. Like I said, the HP software is brain dead. The question what software to use to do the scanning. > > In article <LY2dnQLisqCvSazYnZ2dnUVZ_rOdnZ2d@comcast.com>, > ... [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Sure, this would be much preferable. The issue is what software > to use to do this. > The HP software doesn't let you do this without > restarting the whole process, telling the program you want to save > to a file rather than send a fax, etc. Like I said, the HP software > is brain dead. > > The question what software to use to do the scanning. If you scan one page, set to export to TIFF to a particular folder, it loses these settings by time you go on to another page? OK, that is a drag. Have a close look at your settings, in my software on a Microtex, I generally leave the setting to scan the whole bed and later crop in Photoshop (this then covers all scans without fiddling about getting just the area "wanted" for the particular job). File sizes and speed suffer but hugely convenient. Perhaps others will suggest better software, but do look hard at the preferences in what you have, even fire off an email to HP. Signaturedorayme |
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