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@@ -1,26 +1,8 @@ +Q: scanimage does work, xsane does not (or vice versa). What can I do? -================================================================================ -Q: Have you considered adding a scan to PDF multipage functionality to XSane? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -A: -I already made up my mind about scanning to a pdf file. -The pdf format is a bad format for scanning images. -When you scan a text document to a pdf file then there are -two large differences to usual pdf documents: +A1: in most cases this is caused by at least two installations of sane-backends. +Make sure only ony sane-backends version is installed. -- the size of the scanned documents is about 10-50 times larger than -the size of a comparable text document -- you can not search such a document - -So scanning text and saving it as image to pdf is no good idea. - -And for scanning photos: -The PDF format is a document format, more comparable -to the Microsoft Word format than to jpeg, png or Tiff. -When you scanned 100 pictures to a pdf document, how -will you extract one of the pictures? - -I plan to include multipage tiff and postscript files. -But not in the near future - I do not have the time for it -in the moment. -================================================================================ +A2: may be /usr/local/lib/sane, /usr/lib/sane or /lib/sane is listed in /etc/ld.so.conf +this is not allowed. Remove theses lines from /etc/ld.so.conf and call +ldconfig as root. |