On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 12:32:43PM -0500, Stephen Dauphin wrote:
> I'd like to second this notion. Could those on this list, who are
> scanning for posterity, share their methods?
>
> What platform(s), what hardware(s), what software(s). Any intermediary
> format(s), final output format(s). Whatever it takes.
* Operating system of your choice, as long as PStill binaries work in it.
* Scanning software of your choice (SANE <URL:
http://www.mostang.com/sane/>,
XVScan <URL:
http://www.tummy.com/xvscan/>, ...)
* NetPBM <URL:
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/graphics/graphics/packages/NetPBM/>,
for its pnmtotiff utility.
* libtiff <URL:
ftp://ftp.sgi.com/graphics/tiff/>, for its tiffcp and tiff2ps
utilities.
* PStill <URL:
http://www.this.net/~frank/pstill.html>
* Lots of disk space for intermediate PostScript file and PStill temporary
files.
Example: 39-page A4-size document scanned at 300dpi is 1.5 MB in TIFF
format (Group 4 Fax compression), 84 MB in Level 1 PostScript (PStill
does not grok Level 2 PostScript produced by tiff2ps.)
Result: 3.5 MB PDF (could be less, if PStill used CCITTFaxEncoding.)
Invocation:
scanimage --mode Lineart --resolution 300 | pnmtotiff -g4 >manual-nn.tiff
tiffcp -a -c g4 manual-??.tiff manual.tiff
tiff2ps -1 -a -O manual.ps manual.tiff
pstill -c -o manual.pdf manual.ps
. . . grindgrindgrind . . .
BTW: you can view multi-page TIFF file in Netscape or "I, Explorer" (Win32)
with a SwiftView plugin: <URL:
http://www.ndg.com/product/current/npsv.exe>
--
Sergey Svishchev -- svs{at}ropnet{dot}ru
Received on Tue Mar 09 1999 - 16:47:03 GMT