you guys are great! On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 2:25 PM, Mark Phillips 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 -0001.pdf, > -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" 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, 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 >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: