On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 20:14 +0100, Peter Rap?an wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the reply. Please find my comments below: > > > On Dec 28, 2007, at 7:44 PM, Alessandro Zummo wrote: > > > On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:40:44 +0100 > > Alessandro Zummo <azummo-lists at towertech.it> wrote: > > > >>> to scan the physical images again, instead I want to feed the > >>> files I > >>> have into some kind of virtual scanner device which would look as a > >>> real scanner for the application and which would enable to only pass > >>> the images data from the files that I have to the application. Is > >>> this > >>> possible? > >> > >> Hi, I don't think there is a virtual tiff scanner, but > >> it could be written :) you could also modify the application > >> to read tiff file. which is the application in subject? > >> > > > > The application is Adobe Acrobat Pro (any volunteers for modifying > it ? ;) ). The thing is Acrobat can process scanned books or brochures > in a nice way (i.e automatically remove the middle shadow between the > pages, auto-align rotated pages, do OCR and add text version of the > scanned document to the .pdf file it creates, etc. ). My plan was to > feed the image files to sane, then use a sane-to-twain bridge (which > I've found to exist) on a windows or Mac OS X machine and then let > Acrobat do whatever I need via the twain interface... > > > > btw, I forgot to say that there is a pnm backend, so you > > can just convert your files to pnm and use it. > > > Yes, I am aware of the pnm back-end, but from the man page of sane and > sane-pnm I learned close to nothing (not even how to use that back- > end). Does the convert utility convert multi-page zipped tiffs to pnm > file(s)? If not, which program can I use instead? > > Thanks for any further advice... > > Peter. > > P.S.: I thought there must have been someone in need of similar > functionality as I am and that some user-friendly way of just feeding > any image file into a virtual scanner device would already exist... it > seems such a natural feature to be implemented :)... > > > -- > > > > Best regards, > > > > Alessandro Zummo, > > Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy > > > > http://www.towertech.it > > > >
See this link for some programs http://www.sane-project.org/related.html The unpaper program can correct scanned pages. -- -------- m.vr.gr. Gerard Klaver
