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

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Mon Dec 16 01:54:54 CST 2013


On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 21:41:23 -0600
Leroy Tennison <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net> wrote:

> 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.

You might be able to do what I do on my Brother multifunction printer
with page-feeding scanner...

I just stick a thumb drive in the front panel USB, and using the front
panel, scan to USB. No need for a computer client program, no
need for drivers, completely OS agnostic. I've gotten my Brother
multifunction to scan using Linux, but scanning to a thumb drive is
SO much easier.

SteveT

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