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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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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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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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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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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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scanimage on ADF not working with --batch

I want to scan multiple file with an ADF. This is my device: luca@luca-server:~$ sudo scanimage -L device `xerox_mfp:libusb:001:006' is a Samsung SCX-3400 Series multi-function peripheral If I run this command: luca@luca-server:~$ sudo scanimage…
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Scanned image filtration

I scan documents into images, but my table (where I scan the documents) forms the border of images. So the images I get ain't the pure document I want to obtain. Any suggestion? Something like filter software will be big help, thanks
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