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--- preparation:adf-scanning [2020/09/07 21:43] – hubz
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 ====== ADF Scanning ======
-First off, the methods and software I use are all Windows based, unfortunately I am not experienced enough with Linux or Mac to have built a similar method with them but if someone wants to write one up I will gladly add it to the guide. This guide is currently only tailored for the Fujitsu fi-7460 and 7160 models. But if we find other models that do a good job we'll add methods to use them here as well.
+>The methods and software we present here are all Windows based, if someone would like to write up similar setups for Mac or Linux please do so!
+>This guide is currently only tailored for the Fujitsu fi-7160 and fi-7460 models. As we find other models that do a good job we'll add methods to use them here as well.
 ===== Which Fujitsu Software to use? =====
-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.
+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 "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, whereas "Scansnap Manager" just gives up at that point and cuts it off. Scanning documents longer than A3 is a rare occurrence however, so we recommend using "Scansnap Manager" for everything else.
-**__Scansnap Manager Configuration -__**
+==== Scansnap Manager Configuration ====
-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.
+Upon launch "Scansnap Manager" will usually start in your taskbar and not actually show an application window. So you’ll need to go there and double-click the green ScanSnap icon. Each of the tabs have configuration options.
-Application Tab – I just set this to Scan to Folder and that’s it.
+**Use Quick Menu** - Uncheck to disable.
-Save – Choose the folder you want your scans to go in and change the file naming format if you wish.
+**Application Tab** – Set this to Scan to Folder.
-Scanning – Here are my settings I recommend unless it’s grayscale or non duplex than naturally change it in those cases temporarily.
+**Save** – Choose the folder you want your scans to go in and change the file naming format if you wish.
+**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.
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-File Option - Set this to save your files as JPEG.
+**File Option** - Set this to save your files as JPEG.
+**Paper Size** - This one is a bit tricky. For most uses Automatic will work okay but we’ve noticed with manual pages it sometimes gets too aggressive and will cut things off. So we recommend to scan the manual in twice, first with Automatic as it straightens and crops the manual pages, which saves a lot of work. Then rescan the manual with custom set page sizes that are larger than the document being scanned, so it captures all of it without cropping. Keep those larger scans as your RAW untouched images, which can be compressed together into a ZIP file and included with your uploads. We really recommend going the extra mile and doing this so RAW scans exist for people to use that won't be cut off or can be edited later for various uses. As 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 a great custom size is 6x6 inches which usually captures those completely as well as a small border. Experiment and create your own (please share custom sizes that work for you!), and again this is usually only necessary with smaller manuals. For some reason full size pages are rarely aggressively cropped with the Automatic setting, but it’s a good idea to always keep an eye out for this.
-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. I really recommend going the extra mile and doing this so RAW scans exist for people to use that won't be cut off or can be edited later for various uses. 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 I just leave it set for Check Overlapping [UltraSonic].
+**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 and will make our scans look best
+**Compression** – Set this to 1, that gives you the largest file sizes and the lowest JPEG compression, making our scans look as good as possible.
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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 fine. Under 100 it will just ask you to confirm everything, if it misfeeds it should notify you and I honestly just recommend killing your current batch and redoing it, or figure out which pages it’s missing and start from there. As long as you don’t need to adjust your configuration you can just simply hit the scan button from here on out and it will do it without adjustments.
+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 redoing your current batch, or figure out which pages are missing and start from there. As long as you don’t need to adjust your configuration you can simply hit the Scan button from here on out and it will do it without adjustments.
-===== 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. Another benefit it does have though is it doesn't aggressively crop like ScanSnap Manager does. But due to the compression as well as other random issues it has we don't recommend using it unless you have to.
 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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 ===== Creating PDFs from your Scans =====
-\\ You have successfully scanned a manual, congratulations! But now we need to take these scans and make them into a nice looking PDF file that is ordered correctly. More than likely what you’ll have scanned is a two page spread that will need to have the pages split and reordered. Luckily we can make that happen with some scripts and software without too much work.
+\\ You have successfully scanned a manual, congratulations! Now we want to take these scans and make them into a nice looking PDF file that is ordered correctly. More than likely what you’ll have scanned is a two page spread that will need to have the pages split and reordered. Luckily we can make that happen with some scripts and software without too much work.
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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.
+The picture above shows a manual for Ys 3 for the Super Nintendo scanned with ScanSnap Manager and the settings described above. The images are scanned sideways and out of order, so let's fix that!
-First step is I’m going to losslessly rotate all the pages with some software. I personally use FastStone Image Viewer ([[https://www.faststone.org/]]) but there are likely other solutions. Once in that software I point it to my scans folder. I hold down CTRL on my keyboard and select every other image and then right click them and select Tools – JPEG Lossless Rotate – Rotate Left or Right (Depending on whatever direction I need) and then repeat that again for the other pages (As you’ll notice the rotations alternate due to the duplex scanning.
+First step is to losslessly rotate all the pages with some software. We have had good results with [[https://www.faststone.org/|FastStone Image Viewer]], but there are many other solutions out there. Once in that software point it to your scans folder. Hold down CTRL and select every other image and then right click them, select Tools – JPEG Lossless Rotate – Rotate Left or Right (Depending on whatever direction I need) and then repeat that again for the other pages (as you’ll notice the rotations alternate due to the duplex scanning).
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 Now that our images are lined up properly we can split them. For that we’re going to use a cross platform open source software called [[https://imagemagick.org/script/download.php|ImageMagick]]. Download and install this and then you’ll have the ability to run it from the command line.
-Click [[https://archive.org/details/GAVGSCADFScriptsV10|here]] to download the Powershell scripts I use for this, they are all in a ZIP file –
+We have a collection of [[https://archive.org/details/GAVGSCADFScriptsV10|Powershell scripts]] to use for this, they are all in a ZIP file.
-A short description of each script –
+A short description of each script:
-%%Splitpages.ps1 - Splits all images in a folder 50% horizontally.%%
+%%**Splitpages.ps1** - Splits all images in a folder 50% horizontally.%%
-%%Splitpagesvert.ps1 - Splits all images in a folder 50% vertically.%%
+%%**Splitpagesvert.ps1** - Splits all images in a folder 50% vertically.%%
-%%renameimages.ps1 - Renames and reorders pages in proper order for left to right page order.%%
+%%**renameimages.ps1** - Renames and reorders pages in proper order for left to right page order.%%
-%%renameimages2.ps1 - Renames and reorders pages in proper order for right to left page order.%%
+%%**renameimages2.ps1** - Renames and reorders pages in proper order for right to left page order.%%
-\\ Also please note if you have a slower computer and not a lot of RAM these scripts could crash on larger manuals, in that case you’ll need to split it up into smaller chunks and run it on them.
+\\ Please note if you have a slower computer and not a lot of RAM these scripts could crash on larger manuals, in that case you might need to split it up into smaller parts and run it on them.
-Since our pages are aligned horizontally we’re going to run the Splitpages.ps1 on them. Once that finishes we should have our pages split apart and we can delete the old combined ones as they’ll just get in the way.
+As your pages are now aligned horizontally you should run the Splitpages.ps1 script from the folder the images are in. Make sure ONLY your image files are in the directory or you'll get errors. Once that finishes your pages should be split apart and you need to delete the old un-split images or else you'll run into problems with the next script.
-Next we will run the renameimages.ps1 script against our images. Upon doing that we should have a bunch duplicate images starting with “img” in our folder in the correct order. We can delete the others starting with “image” now.
+Next run the renameimages.ps1 script. Upon doing that you should have a lot of images starting with “img” in your folder, in the correct order. You can now delete the others starting with “image”.
-At this point you should have your images in the proper order and you can create PDF’s from them, or if you’re like me you’ll want to do some editing to them in Photoshop before doing that (such as adjusting levels and descreening). Ultimately it’s up to you. I use Adobe Acrobat to combine images into PDF personally but I know there are free options out there as well you can try. If you have any you can suggest please let me know and I’ll add them to the guide.%% %%That’s it!
+At this point you should have your images in the proper order and you can create PDF’s from them, or if you might want to do some editing to them in Photoshop before doing that (such as adjusting levels and descreening). Ultimately it’s up to you. You can use Adobe Acrobat to combine images into PDF, or many of the other options out there. If you have any to suggest please let us know!