you guys are great!
On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 2:25 PM, Mark Phillips <
mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>
wrote:
> Mike,
>
> You can try the following for scanning double sided documents, assuming
> you have a document feeder.
>
> 1. Load the pages on the scanner - the front of the first page should be
> the first page scanned.
> 2. In the xsane app:
> a. Select the option for ADF
> b. Select a directory for the scanned pages
> c. Use any file name you want, but put -001 at the end (before the
> .pdf)
> d. Set the page count to +2
> e. Click on scan
> 3. Once the scan is done, take the pages from the scanner and put them
> upside down in the document feeder. The bottom of the last page should be
> the first page scanned.
> 4. In the xsane app:
> a. Set the page count to -2
> b. Click on scan
>
> When done, you will have scanned documents with <filename>-0001.pdf,
> <filenme>-0002.pdf, etc. in the directory you selected in step 2b. The odd
> pages (ie -0001, -0003, -0005, etc) are the front facing pages, and the
> even pages are the back of these pages. You can use any number of tools to
> combine these into one pdf document. I use pdf-shuffler. You can add all
> the scanned documents into pdf-shufler, and print one large pdf with the
> fronts and backs in the right place.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> Mark
>
> On Feb 25, 2018 4:04 PM, "Brian Cluff" <brian@snaptek.com> wrote:
>
> That's probably true. While a ton of printers can print on both sides
> these days buy running the page through the printer twice, once for each
> side, for scanning, the scanner has to essentially have 2 complete scanners
> built into the system.
> If you do see what looks like a second scan head, it's more than likely a
> traveling back light for scanning transparencies, slides, and negatives.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
>
> On 02/25/2018 03:33 PM, Michael wrote:
>
> I want to scan both sides of a page in one swoop. Now that I think of it
> the hardware probably won't do it. I haven't found anything on google to
> indicate it will do it. And I just realized that just because it will print
> on both sides does not mean it will scan on both sides.
>
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 4:23 PM, <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
>
>> 'to scan double sided pages' is a loaded, ambiguous and dense statement.
>> Unless the hardware allows it, it is pointless to talk about it.
>> Besides, once the image is in the computer storage manipulable by graphic
>> software, then the detail becomes irrelevant, given that you can
>> mix-n-match the images as you see fit.
>> *IF*, however, the point to print in 'doable sided pages', the the
>> question to answer is radically different.
>> What are you trying to accomplish?
>> ET
>>
>>
>> Michael writes:
>>
>>> Love xsane but I can't figure out how to scann double sided pages. From
>>> my
>>> googling of the issue there is supposed to be a checkbox but I can't find
>>> it. Can ya give a poor soul some assistance? or else inform me of
>>> sommething better than xsane?
>>> xsane version 0.999
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