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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