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Double-Sided Scanning in Leopard
posted by Trollaxor on Sunday March 30, @05:02AM
Software StickyC writes

The final step in my move from Windows to OS-X is my document management solution. I'm using Paperport on Windows with my Brother MFC-8500 document-fed scanner/printer/fax. Where things are falling flat is in the scanning department. Paperport has an excellent feature that helps import double-sided pages by scanning the front of the document stack, then scanning the back of the document stack and automatically collating the pages together to create a nice PDF. Does anything with this capability exist for Leopard yet? VueScan seemed like it might, but it doesn't work with Brother devices. Scanning in DevonThink is broken under Leopard. Brother's included scanner software is as minimalist as possible.

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    get a scansnap and be done with it (Score:1, Informative)
    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 30, @07:11AM (#121634)
    If you are scanning documents, simply get a fujitsu scansnap 500m or 510m and be done with it. works like a champ and does double sided scanning in one shot.
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    double-sided scanning (Score:1, Informative)
    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 30, @07:29AM (#121636)
    I think OmniPage Pro X would do this.
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    Try Acrobat Professional (Score:1, Informative)
    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 30, @04:04PM (#121643)
    Acrobat Professional is capable of creating new PDF documents from compatible scanners, and includes the ability to scan both sides of the documents. As I recall, if the scanner is a one-sides scanner, then Acrobat knows when scanning has completed to ask whether you want to end the scans or scan the "other sides" of the documents.

    You may be able to download a trial of Acrobat 8 Professional from Adobe's web site.

    Good luck.
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    Automator (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 30, @05:20PM (#121645)
    Seems there's a "Combine pages" action for PDFs that SHOULD do exactly what you want using the "shuffle" option. It only did one page when I ran it however. Maybe you'll have better luck.

    If that fails maybe an Applescript working with Preview will work better for ya.
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    Image Capture (Score:1)
    by etherbob on Sunday March 30, @07:24PM (#121646)
    User #18167 Info
    Works great w/ Brother's latest drivers and will happily turn a stack of paper in the documet feeder into a single PDF with little user intervention.
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    Try using the email function - works great (Score:1, Informative)
    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 31, @06:12AM (#121657)
    I have a Brother 8860DN, and I've set it up to email scans to me rather than using the Brother Control Center software. This works great:
    - your computer does not need to be running -- scan from the Brother MFP and the PDF will be waiting for you in your inbox
    - you don't need to install anything on your Mac (the Brother Control Center stuff is not bad, but I wasn't eager to mess up my new install of Leopard)
    - you can do double-sided scanning this way as well

    Here's how you do it:

    1. Your printer needs to be networked using Ethernet, not USB cables.
    2. Get an email account for your Brother MFP (gmail, yahoo, etc.). I've used one of the free additional accounts that comes with my Comcast service.
    3. Make sure the account is POP and set it to not store sent emails (Comcast gives you this option), otherwise the account will eventually fill up.
    4. Enter your email address as a preset on the MFP one-touch buttons, so that scanning is quick and easy. When I want to scan something, I put the document into the feeder, press Scan, press preset #1, and Start and off it goes.
    5. You can change the MFP scan defaults (color or greyscale PDF, TIFF, etc) in the admin page of your MFP. Look in Safari's Bonjour bookmarks and your Brother MFP should appear there.
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    Scanjet (Score:2)
    by fermion on Monday March 31, @06:52AM (#121660)
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    I don't know what your space/work situation is like, but I have had some luck with the HP 5590. I does double sided scanning and will create files in many formats.


    One thing that I do differently. I do not scan as PDF but scan all my documents as pictures into preview.app, then crop or scale then down to what I want. I may also run then through the black and white filter. I then print all the pictures to a PDF file to create what is often a higher quality PDF, at smaller size.


    One thing about moving to a Mac is that the workflows are not exactly the same as on a PC. Some things are not easily done on a Mac, others might be easier with a slight adjustment.

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    Fujitsu ScanSnap (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 31, @08:32AM (#121662)
    We love the Fujitsu ScanSnap at our office. Duplex scanning at 15 PPM, full version of Acrobat included, great OCR software.
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    PDFLab (Score:1)
    by k2r (macslash@gmx.net) on Tuesday April 01, @08:30AM (#121678)
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    I think I Did it like this multiple times:

    Scan /Front/01.tif -09.tif
    Scan /Back/10.tif-19.tif

    Drag Front/* into PDFLab to generate Right.pdf
    change sort order to filename descending and drag Back/* into PDFLab to generate Left.PDF
    Use PDFLabs toolkit to combine Right.pdf and Left.pdf
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    ScanTango (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 02, @07:15PM (#121694)
    Take a look at ScanTango - not sure if it supports the Brother or not, but it is a very nice document scanning program. I use it with a TravelScan 464M
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    ExactScan (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 03, @08:35AM (#121700)
    Maybe also take a look at ExactScan and the scanners it supports:

    http://www.exactcode.de/site/products/exactscan/co mpatible_scanners/

    Good luck!
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    Try Yep (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 05, @11:30AM (#121718)
    I'm using Yep (http://www.ironicsoftware.com/yep/) for managing my PDFS and it has an interleave feature that will collate the two sides for you. It's great.
    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    • Re:Try Yep by StickyC (Score:1) Saturday April 05, @08:28PM
      • Re:Try Yep by knobsturner (Score:1) Wednesday April 09, @07:49AM
    Paperport (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 19, @06:46AM (#121832)
    There used to be a version of Paperport for Mac that did that. Wasn't too long ago either, because it was supplied with Brother Multifunction machines.
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    Re:MacSlash: A Twice Monthly Dose of Mac News and, (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 07, @12:21PM (#121725)
    I wish I had mod points so I could mod the parent up, but alas, MacSlash doesn't give out mod points. Or post articles.
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