[NTLUG:Discuss] Multi-page scanning using an ADF

[Leroy Tennison]

On 12/14/2013 10:28 PM, Leroy Tennison wrote:
> Testing an HP 5590 and having trouble doing multi-page scans.  I'm 
> running SuSE 12.2 and have AcquireImages, Kooka, Scanlite, Simple Scan 
> and Xsane installed.  All either explicitly or implicitly recognize 
> the ADF.  Ironically, only Simple Scan managed to scan multiple pages 
> (when I selected "All Pages from Feeder"). AcquireImages said it 
> scanned the document (but the file was empty) and at least previewed 
> the first page (while having the scanner pass both pages through).  
> Kooka at least successfully scanned the first page and captured a 
> small amount of the second but didn't understand two pages (even 
> though the source was ADF).  Scanlite scanned the first page, prompted 
> for a filename and then pulled the second page through without 
> scanning it.  Xsane scanned only the first page (pulling the other one 
> through) regardless of whether I used Preview or Multi-page mode.
>
> Am I doing something fundamentally wrong?  I suspected the scanner 
> until Simple Scan worked.  Do I need to be using another program such 
> as VueScan?
>
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Well, I discovered I was doing something fundamentally wrong with 
Xsane.  You have to manually specify the number of pages to scan and 
create a multi-page project but then it works.  I'm beginning to think 
that the KDE programs (the other three) don't support multi-page 
scanning, if someone knows different please explain how, thanks.