9 Mar
1999
9 Mar
'99
4:47 p.m.
On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 12:32:43PM -0500, Stephen Dauphin wrote:
I'd like to second this notion. Could those on
this list, who are
scanning for posterity, share their methods?
What platform(s), what hardware(s), what software(s). Any intermediary
format(s), final output format(s). Whatever it takes.
* Operating system of your choice, as long as PStill binaries work in it.
* Scanning software of your choice (SANE <URL:http://www.mostang.com/sane/>,
XVScan <URL:http://www.tummy.com/xvscan/>, ...)
* NetPBM <URL:ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/graphics/graphics/packages/NetPBM/>,
for its pnmtotiff utility.
* libtiff <URL:ftp://ftp.sgi.com/graphics/tiff/>, for its tiffcp and tiff2ps
utilities.
* PStill <URL:http://www.this.net/~frank/pstill.html>
* Lots of disk space for intermediate PostScript file and PStill temporary
files.
Example: 39-page A4-size document scanned at 300dpi is 1.5 MB in TIFF
format (Group 4 Fax compression), 84 MB in Level 1 PostScript (PStill
does not grok Level 2 PostScript produced by tiff2ps.)
Result: 3.5 MB PDF (could be less, if PStill used CCITTFaxEncoding.)
Invocation:
scanimage --mode Lineart --resolution 300 | pnmtotiff -g4 >manual-nn.tiff
tiffcp -a -c g4 manual-??.tiff manual.tiff
tiff2ps -1 -a -O manual.ps manual.tiff
pstill -c -o manual.pdf manual.ps
. . . grindgrindgrind . . .
BTW: you can view multi-page TIFF file in Netscape or "I, Explorer" (Win32)
with a SwiftView plugin: <URL:http://www.ndg.com/product/current/npsv.exe>
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Sergey Svishchev -- svs{at}ropnet{dot}ru