Various Topics on Scanners

..i.. ..tka..

Hello,

I recently bought a Canon Lide 500F Scanner which came with software
that directly produces a PDF file from scans of multiple pages.

My problem is, that I need to rotate a magazine every two pages for
scanning to avoid getting the scanner's do***ent cover in the way,
which is attached to the long side.

Of course, the result is a PDF file where every second page is also
rotated by 180 degrees.

Is there a freeware for Windows or Linux that allows permanent
rotation of single pages in a PDF file?

Or do you solve this problem with other means, e.g. by using a
different software to generate PDF files from scans?

Thanks for any hints.

Regards,

Guido

..sema..

viewscan creates a PDF copy. I'm not sure it it will help you but
maybe you can download it and try.

R

..aren.. ..opfste..

Guido Ostkamp wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently bought a Canon Lide 500F Scanner which came with software
> that directly produces a PDF file from scans of multiple pages.
>
> My problem is, that I need to rotate a magazine every two pages for
> scanning to avoid getting the scanner's do***ent cover in the way,
> which is attached to the long side.
>
> Of course, the result is a PDF file where every second page is also
> rotated by 180 degrees.
>
> Is there a freeware for Windows or Linux that allows permanent
> rotation of single pages in a PDF file?
>
> Or do you solve this problem with other means, e.g. by using a
> different software to generate PDF files from scans?
>
> Thanks for any hints.
>
> Regards,
>
> Guido
Our Art-Copy Business and Enterprise software has a feature to auto
rotate images during the scan.

http://www.art-copy.com

..LI..

Select the check box to display the scanner driver. This is located
in Toolbox. Then use ScanGear in Advance mode. Preview scan each
page and then rotate the necessary ones prior to the final scan.

..n..

I'm not familiar with your native Twain interface, but I'd guess that
your options for rotation are somewhat limited for batch scanning
do***ents.

making manual adjustments on each page during scan sounds painful...
but, if you're only scanning a few pages- I'd probably consider that as
well.

Have you tried to OCR or index your image? that may take care of the
orientation during recognition.

hope it helps~

Danny

..i.. ..tka..

Hello Rosemary,

Rosemary <small-web@earthlink.net> wrote:
> viewscan creates a PDF copy. I'm not sure it it will help you but
> maybe you can download it and try.

could it be that you are talking about 'vuescan' and not 'viewscan'?

Regards,

Guido

..i.. ..tka..

Clarence klopfstein <cklopfstein@gmail.com> wrote:
> Our Art-Copy Business and Enterprise software has a feature to auto
> rotate images during the scan.

Thank you, Clarence, but at the moment I don't want to invest money
into new scanner software.

Regards,

Guido

..i.. ..tka..

Danny <danny-ha@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> making manual adjustments on each page during scan sounds painful...

yes, to me as well. A friend of mine checked out the following command
for Linux using Ghostscript tooling:

$ gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile=-
-f file.pdf | pstops "2:0U(580,850),1" > file.ps
$ ps2pdf file.ps file_new.pdf

It needs a lot of temporary disk space due to the conversion to
postscript and back, but appears to be working. I expect however, that
some PDF-embedded information provided by the Canon Scanner Software
is lost by this step.

Maybe I should go and buy a cheaper OEM version of Adobe Acrobat Std.
on Ebay, but I am not sure whether it can do batch rotation of every
second page or whether I would have to do it manually.

Regards,

Guido

..i.. ..tka..

PCLIVE <no@spam.invalid> wrote:
> Select the check box to display the scanner driver. This is located
> in Toolbox. Then use ScanGear in Advance mode. Preview scan each
> page and then rotate the necessary ones prior to the final scan.

I am not sure I understand what you mean. I know ScanGear in
AdvanceMode where you do the sharpening, color correction, define
resolutions etc., but I can't find any button in this dialog that
allows rotation of the image before or after the scan.

I can't rotate the to be scanned media itself if you mean that - it's
impossible due to the do***ent cover which is in the way.

Regards,

Guido

..r ..rs..

Guido Ostkamp wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently bought a Canon Lide 500F Scanner which came with software
> that directly produces a PDF file from scans of multiple pages.
>
> My problem is, that I need to rotate a magazine every two pages for
> scanning to avoid getting the scanner's do***ent cover in the way,
> which is attached to the long side.
>
> Of course, the result is a PDF file where every second page is also
> rotated by 180 degrees.
>
> Is there a freeware for Windows or Linux that allows permanent
> rotation of single pages in a PDF file?
>
> Or do you solve this problem with other means, e.g. by using a
> different software to generate PDF files from scans?
>
> Thanks for any hints.
>
> Regards,
>
> Guido

Two hints:

1. You can scan the do***ent to a multipage tiff-file and then rotate every other page before printing to a pdf-file using some (freeware or shareware). I'm (mostly) using Irfanview for editing the tiff-file, and PDF995 to produce the pdf.

2. When I scan directly to a pdf-file using my CanoScan 5200 (either with the CanoScan ToolBox or Scangear), I can rotate every other temporary image file (each page) before all pages are printed. The temporary files are stored as bmp-files in the (Windows) temp directory.

hth
PerL