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--- preparation:adf-scanning [2020/09/12 17:40] – jonasrosland
+++ preparation:adf-scanning [2020/09/17 21:20] – hubz
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 ==== ScandAll Pro Settings ====
->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.
+>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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 ===== 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!