[sane-devel] Best choice for an ADF

2005-02-15 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello, Seb schrieb: > I need to buy an ADF-capable scanner; Some time ago I was looking for one, too, and I ended up in buying a Fax-Copy-Scan-Printer with an ADF (originally for 'multi-page-fax'). It is of course not a professional scanner, but fully serves my purposes, which is scanning heap

[sane-devel] Plustek OpticBook 3600 supported?

2005-05-02 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello, does anybody know if the 'Plustek OpticBook 3600' (http://www.plustek.com/products/book.htm) is supported by one of the existing backends? Any experiences with that device? Thank you, Jens

[sane-devel] Plustek OpticBook 3600 supported?

2005-05-03 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello, Jon Niehof schrieb: > http://www.sane-project.org/unsupported/plustek-opticbook-3600.html > and links from that page. Sorry, I only looked at the 'CVS'-section of 'Supported Devices',=20 thinking this would give me the most complete list... I just sent a mail to Plustek, as part of my wor

[sane-devel] Good office scanners with ADF support?

2005-06-02 Thread Jens Gulden
Philip J. Hollenback wrote: > This scanner is destined > to replace a fax machine and so must have and automatic document > feeder capable of holding 50 sheets. It also needs to work with a > linux system My private scanner and printer is a Brother MFC 3420C (http://www.brother.com/europe/fax/i

[sane-devel] Good office scanners with ADF support?

2005-06-02 Thread Jens Gulden
Philip J. Hollenback schrieb: >>My private scanner and printer is a Brother MFC 3420C > > However, I am a bit concerned by the reviews on the Amazon page for > this printer: > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/BCA162/102-0416636-9700117?v=glance There it says e.g.: > The self-c

[sane-devel] Good office scanners with ADF support?

2005-06-03 Thread Jens Gulden
Philip J. Hollenback schrieb: > So in your opinion if I just use this as a scanner with ADF it will > work great? Yes, for _scanning_ I think so, see below. > It won't stop working as a scanner if the ink cartridges run out, will > it? Today Magenta ran out again (the second time since I insta

[sane-devel] good adf scanners

2005-06-07 Thread Jens Gulden
Brad Barnett schrieb: > > Does anyone have any suggestions for a well supported ADF scanner, under > Linux? The SANE support list doesn't specify such things in the summary, > which makes it more difficult to pick a good one.. > > Any tales of success and words of wonder are welcome! > See the

[sane-devel] Re: Unpaper 1.0.1 problem

2005-06-12 Thread Jens Gulden
Janusz S. Bien wrote: > *** error: Input file format using magic 'P2' is unknown. PGM and PBM files (generally, PNM files) can be written in two possible modes: 'ascii' and 'binary'. (See e.g. http://www.csit.fsu.edu/~burkardt/data/pnm/pnm.html) Unpaper supports BINARY mode only, because this i

[sane-devel] Re: Unpaper 1.0.1 problem

2005-06-14 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello, Janusz S. Bien wrote: > I hoped the processing will result in the better centering of > them, as my primary goal is to split double pages into single ones. I > can make the input and output files available if you would like to > have a look at them. That's a good idea, please send some ex

[sane-devel] Re: Unpaper 1.0.1 problem

2005-06-18 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello, Janusz S. Bien wrote: > I placed an example at > http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~jsbien/PTJ1927/ > the result of unpaper on a sample file=20 > > ./unpaper -vv --layout double 04b.pgm unpaper04.pgm > > is slightly surprising: the pages has been shifted slighty to the left Ah, I agree it

[sane-devel] Re: Unpaper 1.0.1 problem

2005-06-21 Thread Jens Gulden
Janusz S. Bien schrieb: > The original scans converted to DjVu DjVu looks interesting (http://www.djvuzone.org/). Thanks for that hint, I didn't know it before. > Although the processing improved the images in some respects, in > general the result seems to me less readable then the > original.

[sane-devel] [ANN] unpaper 1.1 update

2005-08-27 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello, unpaper version 1.1 has been released. unpaper is a tool for post-processing scanned book pages. Some new features at a glance: - Combine single-page scans to 2-page layout output. - Resize to specific sheet sizes ('a4', 'letter', ...), zoom, stretch. - Optimized speed of the auto-rotatio

[sane-devel] [ANN] unpaper 1.1 update

2005-08-28 Thread Jens Gulden
Janusz S. Bie? schrieb: >>- Resize to specific sheet sizes ('a4', 'letter', ...), zoom, stretch. > > Can this feature be used to actually reduce the resolution of scanned > pages? You can set the output sheet to a specific size with the desired dpi resolution, e.g. --dpi 300 --size a4 In that

[sane-devel] Re: [ANN] unpaper 1.1 update

2005-10-06 Thread Jens Gulden
100,0,0 --border-align top --border-margin 1.75cm' to get nicer results.) ...finally, let me apologize for the late answer. I have been moving to a new home in the past weeks, so I didn't have time for this. hth Jens Janusz S. Bie? schrieb: > On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 Jens

[sane-devel] tiff2pdf script or sample

2006-10-31 Thread Jens Gulden
Tom Miller schrieb: > Does any one have any information on how to > use tiff2pdf so that it will combine > mulitple files into one file and convert to pdf? > > Thanks much, > > Tom > Use tiffcp to combine multiple tiffs to one, e.g. tiffcp page1.tiff page2.tiff page3.tiff allpages.tiff (or j

[sane-devel] JNI code for SANE

2006-01-25 Thread Jens Gulden
Any URL to take a look at it? Jens Vacuum Joe schrieb: > Hello SANE developers, > > I have written a simple JNI interface to SANE. It works pretty well and > lets me do scans, display them, etc, all within Java. I am interested in > possibly getting this included in the SANE project under

[sane-devel] unpaper pre-0.2 release candidate, please test

2006-05-01 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello SANE people, there had been very valuable feedback from this list after I had released the first version of unpaper (http://unpaper.berlios.de/), so I would like to let you know about a new version that will be released soon. The very first version had some problems with the compiler's

[sane-devel] [ANN] unpaper 0.2 - post-processing scanned and photocopied book pages

2006-05-10 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello, unpaper is a post-processing tool for scanned sheets of paper, especially for book pages that have been scanned from previously created photocopies. Besides new support for color-scans, speed optimization for deskewing and a number of bug fixes, version 0.2 now also comes with a detail

[sane-devel] Release of JSane

2006-06-21 Thread Jens Gulden
Andi McLean wrote: > I've finally released a new version of JSane. At which URL? If it's www.jsane.com, I cannot find any 'download'-link there, unfortunately. jsane-net.sourceforge.net shows an error. bye Jens > Hi, > > Not sure if anyone is interested, but I've finally released a new versio

[sane-devel] truncated image data when scanning via network

2006-07-20 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello sane people, I have started using saned and network-scanning instead of connecting the scanner/printer locally via USB. Unfortunately, the maximum size to scan is 210mm x 293mm for black&white scans, which is almost a full-sized A4 image (210mm x 297mm). Attempts to scan larger sizes str

[sane-devel] [Announce] JSane

2006-12-04 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello Andi, nice work. Just to mention: when I run ScanPage (with the server-name and options adopted to my setup), there seems to be a problem with device.close(). The first time, the image gets scanned correctly and is shown in the JFrame which pops up, but a second run fails with: Scanning

[sane-devel] [Announce] JSane

2006-12-15 Thread Jens Gulden
ine. Also another problem I have with the MFC3420C (see http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2006-July/017297.html) did not occur with the LiDE30. best Jens Jens Gulden schrieb: > Hello Andi, > > nice work. Just to mention: when I run ScanPage (with the server-name &

[sane-devel] Descreen feature

2007-07-27 Thread Jens Gulden
Ren? Rebe wrote: >> You can use ImageMagick, ExactImage, Gimp, etc. to perform those tasks. You also might want to take a look at unpaper: http://unpaper.berlios.de/ The algorithms used in unpaper are still very simple (some kind of blurring, a noise-filter, black-area removal, auto-rotation, e

[sane-devel] pdf

2007-10-30 Thread Jens Gulden
Hi Steve, > it starts scanning the next page like clock-work, >> before I've had a chance to change the page on the scanner. What program are you using? What OS? Command-line/GUI? In case you're on Linux/command-line, you may want to look at the script I use to scan multiple pages in sequence.

[sane-devel] pdf (double-side scanning via adf)

2007-10-30 Thread Jens Gulden
FIX${TO:(-$DIGITS)}$SUFFIX n=$k done # move wanted second page to its correct position FROM="000$m" jj=$((j+1)) TO="000$jj" #if [[ -n $VERBOSE ]]; then echo -n "--> "; fi mv

[sane-devel] unpaper 0.3 released

2007-12-31 Thread Jens Gulden
Collins. - Removed modes 'single-rotated' and 'double-rotated' for parameter --layout, use --pre-rotate instead. - Added --pre-shift and --post-shift options. - Added --sheet-background option. ...and more. Enjoy and have a happy 2008, Jens Gulden

[sane-devel] [ANN] Unpaper - post-processing scanned book-pages

2005-03-02 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello, unpaper removes black edges and other photocopy artefacts from scanned images. It also deskews book pages (auto-rotates them to a straight alignment), and centers them on the sheet. Old photocopies can become well-readable PDFs again. Available at http://unpaper.berlios.de/. Hope it's u

[sane-devel] [ANN] Unpaper - post-processing scanned book-pages

2005-03-06 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello all, Gerard Klaver wrote: > My proposal/idea would be te place it in a sane-tools package. > This would be a new package with for the time being only the unpaper > program. (...) > I had the idea that Jens (the developer of the unpaper program) is also > the maintainer for unpaper in SANE C

[sane-devel] unpaper endianess

2005-03-11 Thread Jens Gulden
Julien BLACHE wrote: > Unpaper seems to have endianness issues; Are you using 1-bit-per-pixel input or output files (i.e. .pbm, not .pgm)? The only place where I would ad-hoc suspect an endianess issue is when the single bits are accessed during conversion from/to 1-bit images... Is it exactly t

[sane-devel] unpaper default parameters

2005-03-11 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello, Peter Fales wrote: > I get white pages as output on my i686 machine unless I use > --no-border-scan. I haven't analyzed why - and I'm not sure whether > running unpaper with all default arguments is even expected to work. You're right, the default parameters are NOT expected to always w

[sane-devel] unpaper default parameters

2005-03-11 Thread Jens Gulden
Can you attach a sample-image? Peter Fales schrieb: > The images I'm working with are faxes, so they are typically 1680x2200 > pbm (1 bit per pixel) image files. > > I wasn't specifying --layout, but adding "--layout single" didn't seem to > help. Since my pixels are all black or white, I don't

[sane-devel] unpaper default parameter - empty output bug

2005-03-11 Thread Jens Gulden
Peter Fales schrieb: > Now that's wierd. I was using a privately built copy of unpaper, but I > just unpacked the tarball and get the same results with the prebuilt binary! I just reproduced the problem on one remote Intel machine I have access to. Try to compile without any optimization (no -O

[sane-devel] unpaper default parameter - empty output bug

2005-03-12 Thread Jens Gulden
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --040505090908050901030503 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bertrik Sikken wrote: > I'm working on a patch and I'll post it when I'm done at: > http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~bertrik/unpape

[sane-devel] unpaper default parameter - empty output bug

2005-03-14 Thread Jens Gulden
his function [exec] unpaper.c: In function `setPixel': [exec] unpaper.c:634: warning: unused parameter `type' [exec] unpaper.c: In function `getPixel': [exec] unpaper.c:653: warning: unused parameter `type' I will make an update version 1.0.

[sane-devel] [ANN] Unpaper 1.0.1 update released

2005-03-14 Thread Jens Gulden
Hello, an updated version of unpaper is available at: http://download.berlios.de/unpaper/unpaper-1_0_1.tgz This hopefully fixes problems that occurred on some platforms with optimized binary executables, and some other minor issues. For a full overview on unpaper, see http://unpaper.berlios.de