"gxs" <bikini@oll.boom> wrote in news:elq0A.40398$ad2.24344@fx24.ams1:
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> On 2-Dec-2016, Furbz <fuzzy@n.avel.org> wrote:
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>> I've got one of those all-in-one HP Officejet Pros, the 6830. It
>> would just be for magazines as I'm sure I've got hard copies of stuff
>> that I don't have digitized, so no "back-breaking" work involved! ;)
>
> Pre-amble: So I don't have a scanner to test this software on, I used
> to have a similar HP all-in-one to yours but since I work in IT I
> pretty much do all my scanning and printing at work, to the point that
> I wouldn't use my home device for 18 months at a time. When I did go
> to use it the print heads would inevitably be fubar from non-use and
> bamm, there's $100 just to replace the print head.
> So I ended up replacing the inkjet with an el-cheapo laser printer
> that doesn't care how long it's been off for as there's no ink or
> print head involved, the down side is it is only a B&W printer, so as
> I said I can't test the scanning software.
>
> I figured you'd want what I'd be looking for in scanning software
> though, Free, Easy to use and functional.
> Enter "NAPS2 (Not Another PDF Scanner 2)" https://www.naps2.com/
> I like this one for a few reasons, free and open source, still in
> development, looks pretty easy to use and is feature rich. I also had
> to laugh because in the screenshots it's connected to an HP 6830! :)
> I think the best feature for what you want it for is the Batch
> Scanning, it allows you to scan multiple pages and when you're done it
> will compile all those pages in to a single PDF, the size of which
> will be predetermined by your scanning options (DPI for scanning as
> images or OCR for searchable PDFs). As I can't test it I have no idea
> how accurate/time consuming the OCR engine is though. In my experience
> they are often tedious and require a lot of rework so I just scan as
> images. https://www.naps2.com/doc-profile-settings.html
> https://www.naps2.com/doc-ocr.html
> I also liked the Batch Scanning With Fixed Delay option, this means
> you don't have to give the application any input during the scanning
> process, it will automatically scan after X seconds for a
> predetermined number of scans, very handy if the scanner is in a
> different room to your computer.
> https://www.naps2.com/doc-batch-scan.html Naturally it has all the
> standard features and settings you'd expect such as allows you to save
> multiple profiles, so one for magazines, another for photos etc etc.
> Sorting and editing of (multiple) scans before saving blah blah blah.
> If you do decide to check it out let me know if it's any good.
>
> cheers,
> g.
>
Thanks g!
That is one I haven't tried. Looks intriguing. I'll give it a shot this
week! I hope it's a little more intuitive with scanning than I am so I
don't end up with 2 GB PDF's of magazines, lol.
F.
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