aerials
May 28th, 2007, 07:36 PM
hey all
I'm about to get hands at some piles of schematics that I would like to archive in a digital form.
The problem is, that these schematics are larger than the regular A4 sheets that I'm able to scan with my scanner. This means I need two scans for one schematic, which leads me to the problem, that I need to merge the two images.
What would be the best way to do this?
I know I could just do two scans per image and merge the resulted files manually in the gimp. But it would be quite difficult, to achieve exact results and I hesitate to do this manually for 300+ schematics.
Would a panoramic software/plugin do this? The way I scan, I would get quite a big overlapping area, which should make the process easier. I don't know how well such a program would perform with black&white/grayscale graphics, since I've only seen mergers of photographs so far.
Would imagemagick or something similar be able to do the job I want? Regarding the number of schematics I'm about to scan, I would prefer a straightforward commandline way to get the job done efficiently.
So, does anybody know a better way to do what I want, than the way I imagine?
Can anybody point me to a good panoramic software or gimp plugin?
Any commandline ways?
thx a lot :)
I'm about to get hands at some piles of schematics that I would like to archive in a digital form.
The problem is, that these schematics are larger than the regular A4 sheets that I'm able to scan with my scanner. This means I need two scans for one schematic, which leads me to the problem, that I need to merge the two images.
What would be the best way to do this?
I know I could just do two scans per image and merge the resulted files manually in the gimp. But it would be quite difficult, to achieve exact results and I hesitate to do this manually for 300+ schematics.
Would a panoramic software/plugin do this? The way I scan, I would get quite a big overlapping area, which should make the process easier. I don't know how well such a program would perform with black&white/grayscale graphics, since I've only seen mergers of photographs so far.
Would imagemagick or something similar be able to do the job I want? Regarding the number of schematics I'm about to scan, I would prefer a straightforward commandline way to get the job done efficiently.
So, does anybody know a better way to do what I want, than the way I imagine?
Can anybody point me to a good panoramic software or gimp plugin?
Any commandline ways?
thx a lot :)