I am searching for some program for scanning documents to PDF file, I am using samsung SCX-4300. I tried XSane but the files I get are to big (1-3 Mb). Is there some other application for scanner:question: I don’t want to star my Windows just for scan some document.:?
You can adjust xsane to make the documents larger or smaller. … but one pays a price wrt resolution/clarity. The same is true in MS-Windows.
On 2010-08-12 16:06, volter wrote:
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> I am searching for some program for scanning documents to PDF file, I am
> using samsung SCX-4300. I tried XSane but the files I get are to big
> (1-3 Mb). Is there some other application for scanner:question: I don’t
> want to star my Windows just for scan some document.:?
I don’t want to scan to PDF, so I have never tried that procedure. Xsane is customizable, so that
you should be able to choose resolution and compression. In preferences you can choose the default
options for save to file.
I normally scan to png at maximum compression, or jpg, via gimp. If i want a PDF, I convert it later
on command line and choose options.
In fact, pdf is the worst format you can choose for scanned images. I would use djvu instead, for
documents, or png if I want precision or photo manipulation.
I just scanned an A4 page at 300 dpi, a text document. Here are the sizes:
cer@Elessar:~> l out*
-rw-r----- 1 cer users 751538 2010-08-12 19:36 out.jpg
-rw-r----- 1 cer users 3766363 2010-08-12 19:34 out.pdf
-rw-r----- 1 cer users 3747900 2010-08-12 19:35 out.png
PDF has the same size as the png, so it is using lossless compression, like png. If you use
“convert” to transform it, the result is different:
convert out.png out-convert.pdf
convert -compress JPEG out.png out-convert-jpeg.pdf
convert -compress JPEG -quality 75 out.png out-convert-jpeg-75.pdf
and the sizes:
633644 out-convert-jpeg-75.pdf
1023123 out-convert-jpeg.pdf
3770675 out-convert.pdf
And dejavu, wuich is more complex to get:
624381 out.djvu
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))