Re: [O] [OT] Scanning for archiving

2011-11-20 Thread Matt Lundin
TP wing...@gmail.com writes: Apparently the S1500's are supported on Linux via Sane (http://www.sane-project.org/sane-backends.html#S-FUJITSU). Don't see any mention of the S1300 (but it probably also works?). I can confirm that the S1300 works well with Linux. Best, Matt

Re: [O] [OT] Scanning for archiving

2011-11-09 Thread Pieter Praet
On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 22:14:54 -0800, TP wing...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Pieter Praet pie...@praet.org wrote: On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 16:35:11 -0700, Samuel Wales samolog...@gmail.com wrote: I used to find that 8-bit 75dpi was legible and small. True. It all

Re: [O] [OT] Scanning for archiving

2011-11-09 Thread Johnny
Apologies for top-posting, but my comment is only inspired by the conversation and doesn't exactly build on it, so here we go. I use predominantly pdf in scanning, for one main reason only - it handles *metadata* nicely (with gscan2pdf). This is nice for searching later. When playing with DjVu, I

Re: [O] [OT] Scanning for archiving

2011-11-09 Thread Karl Voit
(I enjoy the OT discussion here and hope that no one gets upset because of it on this ML ...) * Pieter Praet pie...@praet.org wrote: On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 18:44:24 +0100, Karl Voit devn...@karl-voit.at wrote: Hi! Inspired by «Total Recall»[3], a book of two MS Research guys, I started life

Re: [O] [OT] Scanning for archiving

2011-11-09 Thread Karl Voit
* Karl Voit devn...@karl-voit.at wrote: Inspired by «Total Recall»[3], a book of two MS Research guys, I started life logging on my own two months ago. For this purpose I bought an HP OfficeJet Pro 8500A Plus which costs € 250 and has a decent scanner. Is can scan and print full duplex. The

Re: [O] [OT] Scanning for archiving

2011-11-08 Thread Pieter Praet
On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 18:44:24 +0100, Karl Voit devn...@karl-voit.at wrote: Hi! Inspired by «Total Recall»[3], a book of two MS Research guys, I started life logging on my own two months ago. Dammit, that's been on my reading list for almost 2 years now, and *still* it isn't available in

Re: [O] [OT] Scanning for archiving

2011-11-07 Thread Karl Voit
Hi! Inspired by «Total Recall»[3], a book of two MS Research guys, I started life logging on my own two months ago. For this purpose I bought an HP OfficeJet Pro 8500A Plus which costs € 250 and has a decent scanner. Is can scan and print full duplex. The scanner as a 30 page ADF which is quite

Re: [O] [OT] Scanning for archiving

2011-11-06 Thread Pieter Praet
On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 16:35:11 -0700, Samuel Wales samolog...@gmail.com wrote: I used to find that 8-bit 75dpi was legible and small. True. It all depends on why you're scanning them in the first place. 75dpi is fine when scanning with collaboration/quick-reference in mind, but for

Re: [O] [OT] Scanning for archiving

2011-11-06 Thread TP
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Pieter Praet pie...@praet.org wrote: On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 16:35:11 -0700, Samuel Wales samolog...@gmail.com wrote: I used to find that 8-bit 75dpi was legible and small. True. It all depends on why you're scanning them in the first place. 75dpi is fine when

Re: [O] [OT] Scanning for archiving

2011-11-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Marcelo de Moraes Serpa celose...@gmail.com writes: I just bought a scanner and started to scan important documents as a backup, and archiving them with meaningful metadata in orgmode files. Then a question came to mind - what dpi to use? I'm not really savvy when it comes to scanning or

Re: [O] [OT] Scanning for archiving

2011-11-05 Thread Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
Thanks Achim! On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Achim Gratz strom...@nexgo.de wrote: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa celose...@gmail.com writes: I just bought a scanner and started to scan important documents as a backup, and archiving them with meaningful metadata in orgmode files. Then a question

Re: [O] [OT] Scanning for archiving

2011-11-05 Thread Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
Hi Jan, I was in fact just looking at that article again a few minutes ago. I recalled that we had discussed that before briefly and that I saw it somewhere, and then I remembered about the discussion about your archiving system. Thanks again! Marcelo. On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Jan

Re: [O] [OT] Scanning for archiving

2011-11-05 Thread Pieter Praet
On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 14:03:24 -0600, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa celose...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, I just bought a scanner and started to scan important documents as a backup, and archiving them with meaningful metadata in orgmode files. Then a question came to mind - what dpi to use? I'm not

Re: [O] [OT] Scanning for archiving

2011-11-05 Thread Samuel Wales
I used to find that 8-bit 75dpi was legible and small. What ADF scanners are out there for Linux that have high quality reliable ADF, are fast, and work well with CLI tools? Is OCR at the point where it is feasible using CLI? Combining that with a new feature to have the Org agenda work with