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Review/Tips: "Scanning - VueScan and Associates" Pt.I: Intro & Bookscanning

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brahman:
Here is a video which shows ScanTailor's new ability to dewarp scanned text lines, which at the moment is still done manually. This is a very important feature when scanning books, since the text lines towards the spine of the book tend to get bent.

This feature is in the new test version which can be downloaded here.

McSam:
In the Page menu there is an item "Interleave".
This command can reorder scans from a document feeder where you cannot manually turn over the page which has text on both sides. You put the pile into the feeder and scan first all the front pages, then you turn the stack around and scan all the back pages.  F.e. you scan front pages 1F,2F,3F, and 4F in this sequence. When you turn the stack around and put it into the feeder you now scan in the opposite direction, so you get the back pages in this sequence: 4B, 3B, 2B, and 1B.
-brahman (August 06, 2010, 09:55 AM)
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Hi brahman,
On the subject of interleaving, maybe you (or other members) can slove this mystery for me:
I have an HP 7310 multifunction with an ADF, but I can't use its double-sided scanning function due to a hardware malfunction, so I'm trying to use the interleaving feature of the "Microsoft Document Imaging" tool that comes with MS Office. On one XP Pro PC I have MDI 2003 installed, which crashes at the end of every "double-sided" session with a "OCRDCOM failure" error -- though it does go through the "scan odd sides then turn over for the even sides" routine correctly. I've tried re-installing the MDI program, with no improvement.
On my other XP Pro PC I have Office 2007 installed, and for some strange reason when I try to run MDI 2007 with the same HP 7310 scanner, MDI has the "Use ADF" and "original is double-sided" check-boxes greyed out, as if the machine didn't have and ADF. And I do have the latest HP drivers installed.
Can you offer some insight into one or both of these problems?
Thanks!

brahman:
Hi McSam,

since I do not use MS Office, I cannot really help you with the MDI issues.

One tip I may be able to give you though: When I worked with the HP Officejet 8500, I noticed on HPs site a special "uninstall" program for its drivers called "Scrubber" (please google for it), which apparently does a more thorough job than the normal uninstall routine.

Maybe you can try to do an uninstall of the HP software with this tool, and then do a minimal install again. Then possibly the "Use ADF" box will work again.

You may also want to install the trial version of VueScan, though the Officejet 7310 is not in the list of supported scanners, the OJ 7300 is and the document feeder is supported. See if "Document Feeder" is shown in the Input>Mode options.

Hope this helps you to get an angle on how to solve the problem. Maybe somebody else in our wonderful DonationCoder community can help you better on this issue.

McSam:
You may also want to install the trial version of VueScan, though the Officejet 7310 is not in the list of supported scanners-brahman (August 17, 2010, 07:44 AM)
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I installed the trial version and it works with the 7310 doc feeder OK, but there is no "Page" menu item at all. The other 6 menus are there, but not "Page". Also FYI, the trial version litters the pages with nasty watermarks.

brahman:
I installed the trial version and it works with the 7310 doc feeder OK, but there is no "Page" menu item at all. The other 6 menus are there, but not "Page".
-McSam (August 17, 2010, 12:38 PM)
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Please refer to my review:
"The Multi Page checkbox is important, since it adds the otherwise invisible Page menu to the menu bar, which allows more ways you can imagine to sort and manipulate the scanned pages (f.e. interleave, swap, separate, reverse, delete, make first etc. etc.)."

IOW: check Input>Multi page and the page menu will magically appear.

Also FYI, the trial version litters the pages with nasty watermarks.

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Yes, I guess Ed meant that to be annoying to make the point that people buy his program and not use it for free. It was quite a shock for me too, when I first dld'ed the test version.

The trial version is simply there as a means to test if VueScan works with your scanner.

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