scanning custom area of paper - what software?

[n***@wilckens.dk]

Please help....I can't find the right software
I need to scan a custom area of a A4 paper (no OCR needed) - it must be
the same area
on all pages (have more than 1000 single a4 pages) - and it must only
scan the defined area. It must remember the area so that it is easy to
continue the scanning of following pages

It would be nice if it could prompt me for a filename after each page
it scans = more than 1000 single tif-files. The name should be one that
I
enter, not a automatic counter, And if it supports automatic paper feed
:-)
All my documents are a single page A4.

I have a HP ScanJet 5550c

Thanks if anyone can point me in the right direction.


Cheers
Brian

[Edward Kroeze]

Post by n***@wilckens.dk
Please help....I can't find the right software
I need to scan a custom area of a A4 paper (no OCR needed) - it must be
the same area
on all pages (have more than 1000 single a4 pages) - and it must only
scan the defined area. It must remember the area so that it is easy to
continue the scanning of following pages
It would be nice if it could prompt me for a filename after each page
it scans = more than 1000 single tif-files. The name should be one that
I
enter, not a automatic counter, And if it supports automatic paper feed
:-)
All my documents are a single page A4.
I have a HP ScanJet 5550c
Thanks if anyone can point me in the right direction.

PrecisionScan Pro (from HP itself) will do this
(atleast it does on my 7450)

This will work on either a fixed brightness/color balance
(same for all scanned pages) or completely automatic.

The procedure below describes what works for me.

From within Precision Scan Pro select resolution, descreen or not etc...
set preferred settings through [Scan][Preferences][Selection Area]
(this is where you decide on auto-features [or not])
prescan the 1st page (CNTRL-N)
select the area to be scanned
select [save as...] (CNTRL-S) and type 1st filename
replace 1st page by 2nd page
select [save as...] and type 2nd filename
replace 2nd page by 3rd page
select [save as...] and type 3rd filename
etc....

The 2nd and consecutive pages are now scanned
with the same selected area as for the 1st page.


Hope this helps,

Edward

[Barry Watzman]

Just an idea ....

I think that a "profile" in the HP scanning software can remember a
specific area of the page. It also remembers all of the various other
scan settings.

If you scan into PDF files using adobe acrobat, which supports the
automatic document feeder, and use the profile, this would "auto scan"
the pages into a single PDF document, one image per page.

If you then open the resulting PDF file and do a "save as" with a JPEG
file type, Acrobat will export each page to a separate JPEG file.

This method won't give you control over the filenames, which you would
have to deal with later, but it would, I think, take care of everything
else. Of course it requires that you have full version Adobe Acrobat
and an automatic document feeder.

Post by n***@wilckens.dk
Please help....I can't find the right software
I need to scan a custom area of a A4 paper (no OCR needed) - it must be
the same area
on all pages (have more than 1000 single a4 pages) - and it must only
scan the defined area. It must remember the area so that it is easy to
continue the scanning of following pages
It would be nice if it could prompt me for a filename after each page
it scans = more than 1000 single tif-files. The name should be one that
I
enter, not a automatic counter, And if it supports automatic paper feed
:-)
All my documents are a single page A4.
I have a HP ScanJet 5550c
Thanks if anyone can point me in the right direction.
Cheers
Brian

[n***@wilckens.dk]

Thank you for your help - i used the program "Art-Copy 8.3 -
enterprise" that worked just fine :-)