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PRB: HP Photo & Imaging 2.0
Hi all,
I'm using HP Photo & Imaging v2.0 with a Scanjet 3570c. I'm having difficulty with the "scan document" applet (v1.3) which is launched from HP Director. I need to scan a large number of documents (text+graphics) and store them as PDF. My problem is that I need to scan the paper edge to edge (8.5x11). The scanner will physically do it, but the software won't allow it. The preview function seems to auto select an output size based on the printed area rather than the paper or the scanner bed - unfortunately it guesses wrong most of the time. The source and output width and height and the scale factor can be set manually, but there are problems. According to the help, the source size is limited by the output size, and in fact the output size can be "locked", suggesting that it is the master. But locking the output size also locks the scale factor - at whatever idiotic value it happens to have when the lock is activated - and then the source limit is inversely scaled to the output so it can't be set 1:1. If the output isn't locked, then the output is scaled to the source as expected. But adjusting any of the source width or height or scale factor immediately recalculates all the rest of the settings so you can never get all the values set properly at the same time. I can get edge to edge scanning if I use the "picture" scan rather than the "document" scan, but the picture applet can't output to a PDF printer and can't string multiple scans together - every page would end up as a separate image file and have to be aggregated later. I checked HP's web site and I have the latest version of the software and all the updates/bug fixes for it. Does anyone know a fix or work around for this problem? Thanks, George -- for email reply remove "/" from address |
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HP Photo & Imaging 2.0
"George Neuner" wrote in message
... Hi all, I'm using HP Photo & Imaging v2.0 with a Scanjet 3570c. I'm having difficulty with the "scan document" applet (v1.3) which is launched from HP Director. I need to scan a large number of documents (text+graphics) and store them as PDF. My problem is that I need to scan the paper edge to edge (8.5x11). The scanner will physically do it, but the software won't allow it. The preview function seems to auto select an output size based on the printed area rather than the paper or the scanner bed - unfortunately it guesses wrong most of the time. The source and output width and height and the scale factor can be set manually, but there are problems. According to the help, the source size is limited by the output size, and in fact the output size can be "locked", suggesting that it is the master. But locking the output size also locks the scale factor - at whatever idiotic value it happens to have when the lock is activated - and then the source limit is inversely scaled to the output so it can't be set 1:1. If the output isn't locked, then the output is scaled to the source as expected. But adjusting any of the source width or height or scale factor immediately recalculates all the rest of the settings so you can never get all the values set properly at the same time. I can get edge to edge scanning if I use the "picture" scan rather than the "document" scan, but the picture applet can't output to a PDF printer and can't string multiple scans together - every page would end up as a separate image file and have to be aggregated later. I checked HP's web site and I have the latest version of the software and all the updates/bug fixes for it. Does anyone know a fix or work around for this problem? Thanks, George -- for email reply remove "/" from address Quit using HP Photo & Imaging v2.0. Try scanning using the TWAIN interface via Irfanview. You can set the scanning area in TWAIN. You can save the images as Multipage TIFF. Get the plug-in also it is needed. http://www.irfanview.net/ I assume that you have a PDF application that can create a PDF from Tiff images. If only humans need to read the scanned documents, you do not have to do OCR. Just make a image PDF. -- CSM1 http://www.carlmcmillan.com -- |
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PRB: HP Photo & Imaging 2.0
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:40:07 -0400, Barry Watzman
wrote: The HP scanning software really sucks. Which is unfortunate, because once upon a time they had good, professional level scanning software (Precision Scan Pro), and they trashed it for what is really unprofessional, dumbed-down "toy" software. Well, its never given me much trouble before - using the copier function and reducing the page usually works. This time, though, I am scanning a lot of stuff that has text printed very close to the right edge and/or hand written notes in the margins. If you use Genuine Adobe Acrobat to do your scanning, the problem will likely disappear, although perhaps not. Cool. I have Acrobat but I didn't know it could scan directly. I'll give it a try. Thanks, George -- for email reply remove "/" from address |
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