27 Nov
2019
27 Nov
'19
8:12 a.m.
On Wed, 27 Nov 2019, mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us wrote:
On Wed, 27 Nov 2019, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
My recommendation: use a proper multi-function copier (the big copiers)
that can also scan to network. I currently use our big Konica-Minolta
bizhub 754. Although it'a b/w copier, it can also scan in color. This
machine scans a two-sided page without flipping the paper, resolution
600dpi, color/bw, and I scan to TIFF multipage images (sometimes I use
JPEG for color pages). No problems scanning a batch of A3 schematics ;-)
Then I use tumble (either directly on the generated .tif or after
tiffsplit and rearranging pages) and ocrmypdf to produce the PDF file.
I guess my setup is much faster than Al's ;-)))
Christian
That's what I use too; it has tons of useful
features, including being able
to drive my single-sided page-feed scanner and being able to number the
even-sided pages correctly. The one I use for this is the 'batch mode'; I
can
do the entire document into CCITT 4 in one operation.
For scanning software, I highly recommend VueScan:
https://www.hamrick.com/
There are Linux, Windows and Mac versions, and it supports thousands of
scanner models, including some very old ones. VueScan can also do CCITT G4
compression, and directly create PDF files. If you but the pro version,
updates are free. I've been using it for years.