<> ## Tag added: inadequate information for a default application. ||<>|| = XSane Image Scanner = XSane is an application that allows you to control a scanner and acquire images from it. With XSane, you can easily photocopy documents and save, fax or e-mail your scanned images. It can even save your scans as multi-page documents, instead of separate, one-page files. XSane can also be used from within [[TheGIMP|The GIMP]]; just click File > Acquire > XSane to scan directly into an image. Menu: Applications > Graphics > XSane Image Scanner = Screenshot = = Installation = * Part of the default Ubuntu installation = Hints and Tips = == Copy to PDF from XSane == When scanning text to send it via E-Mail or so, it comes in handy to have XSane '''convert the scan to PDF automatically''' with its copy mode. For this to work you first have to install '''Cups-PDF''' as described here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PDFPrinting After you have Cups-PDF working, go to the XSane configuration with '''Alt+s''' or via preferences->setup (hope the words are right, as I use German as Desktop language - so I got these from the XSane documentation). Here you can choose the '''copy'''-tab and setup a new copy-printer. Choose a good name like "PDF-printer" and then comes the tricky part: change the command from lpr to '''lpr -P yourprinternameforcups-pdf''' where you exchange yourprinternameforcups-pdf for the name you actually gave to the Cups-PDF printer during its setup. Then choose the resolutions you want to use for lineart, greyscale and color and save the configuration. One important issue: In Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn), together with its cups-pdf 2.4.2-1, I got '''empty PDFs when "Create zlib compressed postscript image for printing" was activated as print option.''' Disabling this option got everything working. = Other applications you may wish to look at = == pdfjam == This metapackage contains pdfjoin, a program to make one new PDF out of several other ones. = Further Reading = * [[http://www.xsane.org/|XSane]] ---- CategoryGraphicsApplications CategoryHardware