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Questions tagged [document-scanning]

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Canon MF Network Scan Utility - autohide/"silent mode"

I've got this AIO printer - MF4570dn. Everything is working.. fine. What I want is some version of "silent" network scan - where you just put docs in scanner and press: Scanner -> Computer Scan -> Ok. And scan utility puts scanned document on…
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How to create hierarchical bookmarks on scanned PDF files?

How can I create a tree table of content in a PDF that can be expanded and collapse like the image below? I know we can go to a page and add a bookmark to include that page in the table of content, but I cannot create a "tree" this way. In…
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Editing searchable .pdf OCR

My case is quite specific so I'll try to explain it quickly and precisely. I have to digitalize several old paper sheets of 230mm x 268mm (~ 9" x 27,7") folded in 4 parts; you can find a quick drawn example here to get an idea. The scanning and…
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Scanning through the Network

Our office uses a Toshiba estudio2830c to scan to the network and to send and receive faxes. Most days the scanning works correctly however there are some days when it takes almost hours for a staff member to receive the scan from the machine.…
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Convert PDF and Word documents to TIFF images

On Windows 7, how could I go about creating a TIFF image from a) MS Word documents, and b) PDF documents? I need the equivalent of printing out and scanning the document, so I can mimic signing the document and scanning it using a graphics…
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How to effectively scan 130,000 paper pages in 10 days

I have a rather large project which will ultimately benefit society, and I'm looking for all the help I can muster.   I have about 130,000 pages that need to be digitized. Many of them are in packages that have staples, or are on paper that is 40…
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Windows 10 Cortana not showing documents from partition d: (c: works, d: is indexed...)

I've installed win 10 on my grandpa's computer, who is blind and so he really needs the "cortana quick document search and open feature" which means typing 2-3 characters of document FILENAME and open it with enter. This works really well on…
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How can a scanned document have multiple layers in resulting PDF?

A colleague and I find ourselves at odds about the details of a transaction. As proof to support his claims, I asked him to send me a copy of an invoice form he received with an order. The colleague says he used a scanner that was part of a large…
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How to reduce error rate when scanning pages using sheet feeder?

I would like to scan old text documents, and then destroy some of the originals. Apart from spot-checking, what can I do to get an acceptably low scan failure rate? I would like to get a failure rate below perhaps 0.25% (after spot checks). I…
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Do TWAIN drivers benefit from multi-core CPUs?

Advanced TWAIN drivers of document scanners contain many image enhancement features such as descreen, color drop-out, despeckle, deskew, prevent see-through, etc. Some of these features are quite CPU intensive i.e. can slow down the scanning/image…
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Using an image editor to 'sign' scanned documents

I often get emailed documents, which I have to print, initial and sign, scan, and email back. I would much rather just scan a copy of my signature (or crop one out of a signed, scanned document n archive), and keep that on hand. When I need to…
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Ghost images when copying but not when scanning or printing

Samsung M2876ND MFC is causing ghost images when any document is copied via the copy button on the device. The ghost images do not overlap the real images, but are printed several inches away. But when scanning anything to PC or printing anything…
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How can I scan a document without losing the original quality?

I am scanning in pages from an old book so that I can recreate the font of this book, but the letters are pretty small and if I scan them in at 150 or 300 dpi I won't get the details needed to recreate this font, and a higher dpi with more details…
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Scan COA Sticker

We are a OEM manufacture and want to prevent errors on read/write windows key. Is there any way to scan the licence key with a hand scanner or something else (mobile camera + software) of the COA sticker.
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2-Sided "book" scanning vs. 2-Sided "tablet" scanning?

HP Scanners with Auto Document Feeders (ADF) offer "2-sided (book)" scanning and "2-sided (tablet)" scanning. There is no documentation to explain the difference, and searching the internet comes up nil. What is the difference?
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