Thanks for advice to all, I will try the pnm-backend way.... Also thanks to Gerard for pointing me to the unpaper utility. It is a nice peace of software.
Have a happy New Year, Peter. On Dec 29, 2007, at 1:01 AM, Alessandro Zummo wrote: > On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:14:31 +0100 > Peter Rap > >> The application is Adobe Acrobat Pro (any volunteers for modifying >> it ? ;) ). The thing is Acrobat can process scanned books or >> brochures > > oops :) > >> in a nice way (i.e automatically remove the middle shadow between the >> pages, auto-align rotated pages, do OCR and add text version of the >> scanned document to the .pdf file it creates, etc. ). My plan was to >> feed the image files to sane, then use a sane-to-twain bridge (which > > I didn't know! > > >> Yes, I am aware of the pnm back-end, but from the man page of sane >> and >> sane-pnm I learned close to nothing (not even how to use that back- >> end). Does the convert utility convert multi-page zipped tiffs to pnm >> file(s)? If not, which program can I use instead? > > you should use tiffsplit to split the files and then tifftopnm . > > the backend should be easy to use, try with > > scanimage --device 'pnm:0' --help > > > the backend is not compiled by default, youll have > to enable it in the makefile. > > > > -- > > Best regards, > > Alessandro Zummo, > Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy > > http://www.towertech.it >
