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How to scan multiple pages into a single pdf in Windows 10?
It's never too late to suggest Windows applications for How to scan multiple pages into a single PDF.
NAPS2:(Not Another PDF Scanner 2)
PaperScan Scanner Software.
ScanSpeeder
VueScan
OminiPage ...
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How do you output a QR code to the linux cli terminal for scanning?
Use the terminal application qrencode (man page). The command you are looking for is the following:
qrencode -t ansiutf8 < myfile_here
The t option is to specify output type. it can also be PNG ...
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Enable OCR in Greenshot
For those of you who for some reason or another can't/won't install SharePoint Designer, I've found a nice alternative solution, using the FOSS Capture2Text.
The software comes with both a GUI and a ...
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Scanning old papers in TIFF format. Is scanning at 48-bit color worth it?
To answer how many bits of color depth you need and how it affects your results, let me start with a quick explanation of what color depth actually is.
What is color depth?
Color depth describes how ...
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How do you output a QR code to the linux cli terminal for scanning?
Passing an url inline:
qrencode -m 2 -t utf8 <<< "https://superuser.com/questions/1492624/how-do-you-output-a-qr-code-to-the-linux-cli-terminal-for-scanning/1492625"
To ease the ...
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Scanning old papers in TIFF format. Is scanning at 48-bit color worth it?
I want to suck out the highest quality from that scanner, but is there
a point in scanning white paper with black ink at such a high color
depth such as the 48-bit that is the max on my scanner?
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Enable OCR in Greenshot
Enable OCR in Greenshot
How can I use Greenshot for OCR?
For the Greenshot OCR (Optical Character Recognition) plug-in to work
we are depending on a component from Microsoft called MODI (Microsoft
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How to effectively scan 130,000 paper pages in 10 days
If you simply need facsimiles of these and do not care so much about perfect presentation, consider a camera attached to a vertical copy stand.
Guaranteed not to jam, easily adjusted for different ...
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Scanning old papers in TIFF format. Is scanning at 48-bit color worth it?
On the other hand, there are situations where the scan itself at higher bits could be useful; e.g., when there is very little available contrast or range on the scanned materials.
In my experience, ...
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Enable OCR in Greenshot
You also need to install MODI (Microsoft Office Document Imaging)
Go on following page and execute method 2 (this worked for me)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/982760/install-modi-for-use-...
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How to effectively scan 130,000 paper pages in 10 days
I can't answer what scanner to get, I can however speak from experience as an ex-worker who prepared, scanned and archived documents of all shapes and sizes that paper is rarely fragile and any tears ...
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Trimming exterior empty space with ImageMagick does not work on scanned documents
You can use -shave and simply shave off the edges and then use the logic you use afterwards to process accordingly.
Note: The amount you shave off (e.g. the
argument after "-shave" 40x40 or ...
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How to leave pdf image unchanged while adding OCR to a pdf with pdfsandwich?
I contacted Tobial Elze, the creator of pdfsandwich, with my question. Here is their response:
I'm fully aware of what you mean and I agree that this would be a
useful feature. It is currently ...
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Is TIFF a good file format to scan my old photos in?
I would suggest that amongst the factors to consider is your available storage space & also eventual goal.
TIFF can be huge, but they are the most 'accurate'
One you didn't mention, but that ...
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Scanning resolution
The CCD is actually a single-line device. In the example, the single line CCD scans at a horizontal density of 600 samples-per-inch. We can call this a scanline. The hardware always captures 600 ...
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Enable OCR in Greenshot
The new way is to just save an image with Greenshot, then copy and paste into OneNote, right click the image, Copy Text from Picture, then paste OCRed text.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...
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How to scan a physical document and store it as PDF
You cannot do what you want with that printer since it is only a printer and has no built in scanner, you would need a separate scanner or an all in one laser printer that also scans documents.
Here ...
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How can I improve the scan quality of the text written with a pencil?
The issue is that the default scanning mode was auto-color detection:
The auto-color detection must have incorrectly thought that the document was black and white.
Changing it to "gray" ...
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How do I find an intermediate switch's IP address on my LAN?
Switches are "layer 2" devices that forward link-layer frames (not IP packets), so they don't need to have an IP address to do their job, and they might actually not have one – and even if ...
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When a PDF file only contains a scanned image, is it just a JPG image inside a PDF container?
According to this link, no - PDF rips apart the image and recreates it - sometimes using the JPEG or JPEG2000 encoding.
A PDF file usually stores an image as a separate object (an XObject) which ...
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SANE scanning, scanbd buttons and service permissions
I've finally got it all working...
The end goal for me was to get the scan buttons working. By the time I figured it out, I got the scan buttons working AND network scanning also.
Turns out I was ...
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Is my anti-malware setup consistent with "best practices"?
I regret to inform you that there is no software that exists that can guarantee you that there are no viruses on your computer. You can say it's unlikely, but can not get a guarantee. Here's why, ...
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scanning a print to cad
1) Get a good digital scan of your original. It's important that you get good contrast: good dark lines on a good white background. If that's not possible you may be able to clean it up in the next ...
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How to effectively scan 130,000 paper pages in 10 days
A few thoughts on removing staples
For standard document scanners you need to remove staples.
If the paper edge next to the staple does not contain any information you could consider to just cut ...
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Epson Image scanning in Debian
Turns out that you need to add the scanner into the config manually, especially if it is connected via network.
CTI on the Linux Mint forums was especially helpful:
edit the file /etc/sane.d/epkowa....
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Is it legal to scan directories / sub-directories / files on some website?
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this doesn't constitute legal advice.
Is it legal to scan directories / sub-directories / files on some website?
If the information in those directories is ...
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How do I find an intermediate switch's IP address on my LAN?
Your switch is an UNMANAGED switch.
There is nothing that you can configure and (obviously) it doesn't have any configuration interface which would need an IP-address.
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Detecting blank image files
Slightly improved version of the code in the question:
#!/bin/bash
mkdir -p "blanks"
for i in "$@"; do
echo "${i}"
if [[ -e $(dirname "$i")/.$(basename "$i") ]]; then
echo " ...
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How can I ping a range of IP addresses simultaneously
Angry IP Scanner is great, but I prefer CLI tools. See if you can get this powershell script running in Vista. https://github.com/webstersprodigy/PowerSploit/blob/Portscan/Recon/Invoke-Portscan.ps1
I ...
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How can I scan multiple photos at once
The software prostprocessing function you are looking for is called image segmentation. At least under Linux, I don't know a proper solution so far. (There is the proof-of-concept segment_image script ...
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