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====== ADF Scanning ====== | ====== ADF Scanning ====== | ||
- | First off, the methods and software | + | > |
- | Currently due to the cost of most good ADF Scanners there is little known or models | + | >This guide is currently only tailored for the Fujitsu fi-7160 and fi-7460 |
- | Much like scanners there are low end consumer grade ADFs and then there are more expensive business class ADFs. Well unluckily for us the cheaper ones do not do a great job for our uses. Almost all of them introduce artifacts and what I call “banding” and don’t capture the individual CMYK dots. They also use the dreaded CIS instead of CCD usually. While no ADF scanners are able to scan as well as a flatbed scanner they save IMMENSE amounts of time and without a huge team of people it’s unreasonable for us to expect to ever have high resolution manual scans for large amounts of games done by flatbed unfortunately. However the higher end ADF scanners do a pretty good job so not all is lost! | + | ===== Which Fujitsu Software to use? ===== |
- | I have yet to find an ADF scanner that does what I would call a “perfect” job. They all have their quirks, but I can recommend a couple of Fujitsu models I’ve used. That being said I have only currently had experience | + | If have a fi-7160 or fi-7460 you’ll notice these come with a slew of software from Fujitsu, so which do we want to use? We have found that the consumer grade " |
- | Models I personally recommend – | + | ==== Scansnap Manager Configuration ==== |
- | Fujitsu fi-7160\\ Fujitsu fi-7460 | + | Upon launch " |
- | Models I don’t recommend – | + | **Use Quick Menu** - Uncheck to disable. |
- | Fujitsu Scansnap ix500\\ Epson Workforce GT-S80\\ Epson Workforce GT-S50 | + | **Application Tab** – Set this to Scan to Folder. |
- | An example of why I don’t like the ScanSnap ix500 is this from the cover of the Dragon Quest VIII manual for the Sony Playstation 2 - | + | **Save** – Choose |
- | {{: | + | **Scanning** – Here are the recommended settings for a color document that's duplex (printed on both sides). If the document is grayscale or non duplex, then change it in those cases temporarily. |
- | It may be hard to see but if you look closely you’ll notice a kind of banding as well as noisy artifacts, especially along Jessica’s red dress. This scanner is not capturing the CMYK dots properly and is guessing to create the effect, it doesn’t look bad zoomed out but it is not archival quality. Also the colors are wrong and overly saturated. Here’s the same area scanned with a Fujitsu fi-7460 – | + | {{: |
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- | It may be harder to notice but the dots are there instead of the banding which is what we want and the colors are more correct. | + | |
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- | My issue with the Epson scanners is they almost always have streaks on them which ruin the image. You can scan and rescan multiple times and eventually get a clean one but it can really become a chore having to go through each image carefully to look for streaks then rescan multiple times until you don’t get any. Maybe I just got two lemons and this isn’t common on most Epson’s but the two separate models I tried exhibited this behavior. | + | |
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- | That is not to say that the high end Fujitsu’s don’t have faults. They both introduce JPEG compression of their own which puts artifacts in, especially in darker areas. This is unfortunate and annoys me but it’s still better than the alternatives in my opinion, and outside of this factor they do a great job and it’s really not noticeable unless you look closely. | + | |
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- | Sadly the Fujitsu’s I recommend are quite expensive, but if you have a lot of manuals and paperwork to scan they are worth the money in time you’ll save instead of flatbed scanning. | + | |
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- | ===== Which Fujitsu Software to use? ===== | + | |
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- | If you go ahead and purchase a 7160 or 7460 you’ll notice these come with a slew of software from Fujitsu… so which do we want to use? Well it depends. I personally have found that surprisingly the consumer grade Scansnap Manager Software produced better results than the professional ScandAllPro software did. It’s also MUCH simpler to configure. There is one benefit to ScandAllPro though and it’s that it will accept documents that have a length longer than A3 where as Scansnap Manager just gives up at that point and cuts it off. That is rarely encountered however in my experience so I recommend using Scansnap Manager outside of that. However I’ll show you how I’ve configured both. | + | |
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- | **__Scansnap Manager Configuration -__** | + | |
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- | Upon launch Scansnap Manager will usually start in your taskbar (If you’re in Windows) and not actually pull anything up. So you’ll need to go there and right click the green scansnap icon and choose scan button settings. Each of the tabs have configuration options. | + | |
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- | Application Tab – I just set this to Scan to Folder and that’s it. | + | |
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- | Save – Choose the folder you want your scans to go in and change the file naming format if you wish. | + | |
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- | Scanning – Here are my settings I recommend unless it’s grayscale or non duplex than naturally change it in those cases temporarily. | + | |
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- | File Option | + | **Paper Size** |
- | Paper Size – This one is a bit tricky… for most uses Automatic will work okay but I’ve noticed with manual pages it sometimes gets too aggressive and will cut things off. So what I’ll do is scan the manual in twice, once with automatic as it straightens and crops the manual pages, which saves a lot of work. I’ll then rescan another time with custom set page sizes that are larger than what I’m scanning so it captures all of it without cropping. I’ll keep those larger scans as my RAW untouched images which I usually ZIP and include with my uploads. For books and magazines I don’t really run into this issue but for smaller pages I do for whatever reason. As I mentioned above you can create Custom Sizes to cut down on the extra space it will scan in to make your file sizes smaller, for example for NES/Famicom Manuals I have one set that is set to 6x6 inches which usually captures those completely as well as a border. Experiment and create your own is what I recommend, and again this is really only necessary with smaller manuals in my experience, for some reason full size pages are rarely aggressively cropped with automatic but it’s not a bad idea to always keep an eye out for this. Oh and lastly for Multifeed Detection | + | **Multifeed Detection** - Set it to Check Overlapping [UltraSonic]. |
- | Compression – Set this to 1, that gives you the largest file sizes but the lowest JPEG compression | + | **Compression** – Set this to 1, that gives you the largest file sizes and the lowest JPEG compression, making |
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- | Once you set all of these then put your pages in your ADF with your cover page facing you and the guides locked in. Then hit your scan button and it should start feeding your scans through. Notice if you do over 100 pages it will error out and ask if you want to delete your scans. Just tell it no there and it will keep everything | + | Once you set all of these then put your pages in your ADF with your cover page facing you and the guides locked in. Then hit your scan button and it should start feeding your scans through. Notice if you do over 100 pages it will error out and ask if you want to delete your scans. Just tell it No, and it will keep everything. Under 100 it will just ask you to confirm everything, if it misfeeds it should notify you and we honestly just recommend |
- | ===== ScandAll Pro Settings | + | ==== ScandAll Pro Settings ==== |
- | \\ Again I do NOT recommend ScandAllPro for scanning with your Fujitsu scanners due to the fact that it produces worse quality and more JPEG artifacts than ScanSnap Manager. It’s only useful when you are scanning very long documents as it will not cut them off. | + | >Again we do NOT recommend ScandAllPro for scanning with your Fujitsu scanners due to the fact that it produces worse quality and more JPEG artifacts than ScanSnap Manager. It’s only useful when you are scanning very long documents as it will not cut them off. |
To configure it you’ll need to go to the “Scan Options” along the toolbar and click it. | To configure it you’ll need to go to the “Scan Options” along the toolbar and click it. | ||
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- | If you close out of that window then you’ll choose another option on your toolbar- | + | Close out of that window, then you’ll choose another option on your toolbar: |
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- | That will bring up this window which you’ll click the circled area on – | + | That will bring up this window which you’ll click the circled area: |
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- | Mimic the settings in these screenshots on each tab – | + | Mimic the settings in these screenshots on each tab: |
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Here is a manual for Ys 3 for the Super Nintendo done with ScanSnap Manager and the settings I described above. I’ll now walk you through how I am going to fix it in Windows. | Here is a manual for Ys 3 for the Super Nintendo done with ScanSnap Manager and the settings I described above. I’ll now walk you through how I am going to fix it in Windows. | ||
- | First step is I’m going to losslessly rotate all the pages with some software. I personally use FastStone Image Viewer (https:// | + | First step is I’m going to losslessly rotate all the pages with some software. I personally use FastStone Image Viewer ([[https:// |
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