Re: [gentoo-user] scanning using the sheet feeder (HP 8600 + xsane)

2017-05-07 Thread allan gottlieb
On Sun, May 07 2017, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 06 May 2017 19:22:50 -0400, allan gottlieb wrote: > >> I received many helpful replies, each of which recommend a tool other >> than sane. Is the point that sane can't use the document feeder or just >> that you prefer (or simply have used)

Re: [gentoo-user] scanning using the sheet feeder (HP 8600 + xsane)

2017-05-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 06 May 2017 19:22:50 -0400, allan gottlieb wrote: > I received many helpful replies, each of which recommend a tool other > than sane. Is the point that sane can't use the document feeder or just > that you prefer (or simply have used) other tools. SANE is mainly intended as the

Re: [gentoo-user] scanning using the sheet feeder (HP 8600 + xsane)

2017-05-06 Thread Adam Carter
> > Anyway it now works! The only problem is that the max resolution for > multipage using the ADT is 300 dpi. Using the flatbed you can go much > higher. > Ok that's good to know. (I have an 8620).

Re: [gentoo-user] scanning using the sheet feeder (HP 8600 + xsane)

2017-05-06 Thread allan gottlieb
On Sat, May 06 2017, Adam Carter wrote: >> >> I received many helpful replies, each of which recommend a tool other >> than sane. Is the point that sane can't use the document feeder or just >> that you prefer (or simply have used) other tools. >> > $ qfile /usr/bin/scanimage >

Re: [gentoo-user] scanning using the sheet feeder (HP 8600 + xsane)

2017-05-06 Thread Adam Carter
> > I received many helpful replies, each of which recommend a tool other > than sane. Is the point that sane can't use the document feeder or just > that you prefer (or simply have used) other tools. > > $ qfile /usr/bin/scanimage media-gfx/sane-backends (/usr/bin/scanimage) And xsane depends

Re: [gentoo-user] scanning using the sheet feeder (HP 8600 + xsane)

2017-05-06 Thread allan gottlieb
On Fri, May 05 2017, allan gottlieb wrote: > I have an hp 8600 all-in-one and use net-print/hplip. > Printing is fine. > > I use xsane for scanning, which also works well ... > > ... except I can't figure out how to use the sheet feeder for multipage > scanning. > > I can select multipage and can

Re: [gentoo-user] scanning using the sheet feeder (HP 8600 + xsane)

2017-05-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 6 May 2017 10:08:36 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > >> I use xsane for scanning, which also works well ... > >> I can't figure out how to use the sheet feeder for multipage > >> scanning. > > I use gscan2pdf for that. I've used it to scan hundreds of pages > > into a single document, only

Re: [gentoo-user] scanning using the sheet feeder (HP 8600 + xsane)

2017-05-06 Thread Philip Webb
170506 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 05 May 2017 22:05:26 -0400, allan gottlieb wrote: >> I have an hp 8600 all-in-one and use net-print/hplip. >> Printing is fine. >> I use xsane for scanning, which also works well ... >> I can't figure out how to use the sheet feeder for multipage scanning. > I

Re: [gentoo-user] scanning using the sheet feeder (HP 8600 + xsane)

2017-05-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 05 May 2017 22:05:26 -0400, allan gottlieb wrote: > I have an hp 8600 all-in-one and use net-print/hplip. > Printing is fine. > > I use xsane for scanning, which also works well ... > > ... except I can't figure out how to use the sheet feeder for multipage > scanning. > > I can select

Re: [gentoo-user] scanning using the sheet feeder (HP 8600 + xsane)

2017-05-06 Thread thelma
On 05/05/2017 10:51 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > ... except I can't figure out how to use the sheet feeder for multipage > scanning. > > I can select multipage and can the scan each page singly and hit > "save multipage file". This works. But I can't put say 10 pages in the >

Re: [gentoo-user] scanning using the sheet feeder (HP 8600 + xsane)

2017-05-06 Thread taii...@gmx.com
I am curious do you have the issue where the scanner light returns back to the docking area after every page scanned via ADF? it takes so long to scan with that problem and it wears down the gears. - Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] scanning using the sheet feeder (HP 8600 + xsane)

2017-05-06 Thread J. Roeleveld
On May 6, 2017 4:05:26 AM GMT+02:00, allan gottlieb wrote: >I have an hp 8600 all-in-one and use net-print/hplip. >Printing is fine. > >I use xsane for scanning, which also works well ... > >... except I can't figure out how to use the sheet feeder for multipage >scanning. > >I

Re: [gentoo-user] scanning using the sheet feeder (HP 8600 + xsane)

2017-05-05 Thread Adam Carter
> > ... except I can't figure out how to use the sheet feeder for multipage > scanning. > > I can select multipage and can the scan each page singly and hit > "save multipage file". This works. But I can't put say 10 pages in the > feeder, hit something, get coffee, and find a 10 page document