Scanning in Image Scan for Linux

[daniell59]

I would like to scan a book. How can I do it with the above program?
I don't want each page to be a separate file.

Thanks

[Paul820]

Does the manual not suggest anything? If you google for "image scan linux", there is a pdf you can download.

[daniell59]

Does the manual not suggest anything? If you google for "image scan linux", there is a pdf you can download.

Thanks, I will do as you suggested.

[SoFl W]

xsane has a multi-page option, or you can use pdfjoin to put each page together.

[daniell59]

xsane has a multi-page option, or you can use pdfjoin to put each page together.

Thanks, I have that installed.

[lavinog]

I find it to be quicker to scan each page to a file first, then join the files afterwards. This way if there was an issue with one page, you don't need to start over.


Also, you can try djvu if you want to make the scans save a lot of space:
You will need to install djvulibre-bin first.

For color scans you can scan to jpeg first, then convert the scanned images to djvu

c44 scan0001.jpg page0001.djvu

If you have a bunch of files you wish to convert:

for f in *jpg ;do echo $f ; c44 $f ${f%.jpg}.djvu ;done

If you want bitonal use cjb2 and the input file needs to be a pbm file.

When you are done you can join all of the files with djvm:

djvm -c book.djvu page*.djvu

[SoFl W]

I find it to be quicker to scan each page to a file first, then join the files afterwards. This way if there was an issue with one page, you don't need to start over.

xsane's multi-page option allows you to move pages around, delete or re-scan a page. (Actually not a re-scan but a new scan and you move it to the original place)

Here is a note on how to use multi-page along with a note on scanning to PDFs using gscan2pdf.

[macogw]

xsane's multi-page option allows you to move pages around, delete or re-scan a page. (Actually not a re-scan but a new scan and you move it to the original place)

Here is a note on how to use multi-page along with a note on scanning to PDFs using gscan2pdf.

That's my blog, but nowadays I highly recommend Simple Scan. Click a button, and it scans the page. Click the button again, and it scans the next page. Click "Save" and you get a multi-page PDF.

[SoFl W]

Thank you for that tutorial, during some update of libsane package no longer supported my old scanner and I was going back to Windows to scan documents. I eventually purchased a new all-in-one and used your page to refresh my memory on multi-page scanning. I like Xsane, and Epson's Image Scan, I removed Simple Scan from the menu after a few problems.

[mebunto]

Simple scan works wonderfully! Thanks