Revision of Setup a Scanner from Wed, 06/25/2014 - 19:38

Checking for Compatibility

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) previously maintained a hardware directory. The FSF has has begun migrating this data to the community supported site h-node.

• The scanner site is a resource that will help users find information about if scanners work with all Free Software. Users are encouraged to submit hardware information to h-node because this will help the community know which hardware is supported and which to avoid.

Page dimensions

Simple Scan has page setting options in Document -> Preferences.

If your scanner doesn't seem to listen to your Preferences settings, you can modify the page dimensions after scanning.

" Suppose we want to trim the pages of our input file prior to n-upping. This can be done by using a pipe:

 pdfjam myfile.pdf --trim '1cm 2cm 1cm 2cm' --clip true --outfile /dev/stdout |   pdfnup --frame true --outfile myoutput.pdf

The --trim option specifies an amount to trim from the left, bottom, right and top sides respectively; to work as intended here it needs also --clip true. These (i.e., trim and clip) are in fact options to LaTeX's \includegraphics command (in the standard graphics package)." - University of Warwick example 6

Sources:

Community member Magic Bananna https://trisquel.info/en/forum/common-problem-scanners

Example 6 at ... http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic-research/firth/software/pdfjam/