Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] scanning using the sheet feeder (HP 8600 + xsane)
Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 13:41:10
Message-Id: 20170506144039.0b1d1745@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] scanning using the sheet feeder (HP 8600 + xsane) by allan gottlieb
1 On Fri, 05 May 2017 22:05:26 -0400, allan gottlieb wrote:
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3 > I have an hp 8600 all-in-one and use net-print/hplip.
4 > Printing is fine.
5 >
6 > I use xsane for scanning, which also works well ...
7 >
8 > ... except I can't figure out how to use the sheet feeder for multipage
9 > scanning.
10 >
11 > I can select multipage and can the scan each page singly and hit
12 > "save multipage file". This works. But I can't put say 10 pages in the
13 > feeder, hit something, get coffee, and find a 10 page document on my
14 > computer.
15
16 I use gscan2pdf for that. I've used it to scan hundreds of pages into a
17 single document, only stopping to top up the document feeder.
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21 Neil Bothwick
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23 Hyperbole is absolutely the worst mistake you can possibly make

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Re: [gentoo-user] scanning using the sheet feeder (HP 8600 + xsane) Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>