Scanner software recommendation

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 23 May 2017 17:22:32 -0700 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> I have an HP OfficeJet 5710 All-In-One attached to my Xubuntu 16.04.2
> home desktop that I've been using for over a year now. I use xsane for
> the scanner software, but I'm not at all happy with it.  It forgets
> half of its settings every time I switch from ADF to flatbed (mainly
> resolultion and paper size), and it doesn't handle multi-page scans
> well at all.  I have to scan each page individually because, for some
> reason, the software can't seem to figure out when one page ends and
> another begins.
> 
> Is there any really high quality, preferably free, Linux scanning
> software for a multi-sheet-feeder scanner that can get every page as
> it feeds through and not require baby-touch handling like xsane?
> 
> I'd rather not have to use the scanners at work, which do this just
> fine, or be forced to use a Windows machine for the work. I have this
> crazy expectation that there's something that works on Linux at least
> as well as the cheapest non-free multipage scanning software that runs
> on Windows.


Have you looked at scanimage (part of the sane-utils package)?

>From 'man scanimage':

       The  --batch* options provide the features for scanning documents using
       document feeders.  --batch [format] is used to specify  the  format  of
       the  filename  that each page will be written to.  Each page is written
       out to a single file.  If format  is  not  specified,  the  default  of
       out%d.pnm  (or  out%d.tif  for  --format tiff) will be used.  format is
       given  as  a  printf  style  string   with   one   integer   parameter.
       --batch-start start selects the page number to start naming files with.
       If  this  option  is  not  given,  the  counter  will   start   at   1.
       --batch-count  count  specifies the number of pages to attempt to scan.
       If not given,  scanimage  will  continue  scanning  until  the  scanner
       returns  a state other than OK.  Not all scanners with document feeders
       signal when the ADF is empty, use this command  to  work  around  them.
       With  --batch-increment  increment  you  can change the amount that the
       number in the filename is incremented by.  Generally this is used  when
       you  are  scanning  double-sided  documents  on a single-sided document
       feeder.  A specific command is provided  to  aid  this:  --batch-double
       will automatically set the increment to 2.  --batch-prompt will ask for
       pressing RETURN before scanning a page. This can be used  for  scanning
       multiple pages without an automatic document feeder.


> 
> Thanks.
> MR
> 

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