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

[Leroy Tennison]

On 12/16/2013 01:54 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
> 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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Interesting thought, I don't think the HP 5590 has an extra USB port 
(tested with a borrowed one I no longer have until the one I bought 
comes in) but I'll have to look into that.