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From: psaffrey on 3 Jan 2008 09:41
I'm planning to scan a large set (hundreds) of old prints. Is there
any software that can automatically crop around the edges of prints to
divide them into files? Ideally, it would allow me to scan prints in
batches. The prints are 30 years old and quite a variety of different
sizes, so I can't just use a feeder.

Any other advice? There is a lot of information on the web about what
kind of scanner to use but a lot of it seems to assume you will crop
out the images yourself.

Peter
From: CSM1 on 3 Jan 2008 09:56
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> I'm planning to scan a large set (hundreds) of old prints. Is there
> any software that can automatically crop around the edges of prints to
> divide them into files? Ideally, it would allow me to scan prints in
> batches. The prints are 30 years old and quite a variety of different
> sizes, so I can't just use a feeder.
>
> Any other advice? There is a lot of information on the web about what
> kind of scanner to use but a lot of it seems to assume you will crop
> out the images yourself.
>
> Peter

Some scanners have that ability built in. Read your Scanner manual. Should
be something about multiple pictures on the platen.

My Canon 8400F has Multi-Crop/Platen and will automatically select multiple
images and make separate files.


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From: tomm42 on 4 Jan 2008 08:28
On Jan 3, 9:41 am, "psaff...(a)googlemail.com" <psaff...(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
> I'm planning to scan a large set (hundreds) of old prints. Is there
> any software that can automatically crop around the edges of prints to
> divide them into files? Ideally, it would allow me to scan prints in
> batches. The prints are 30 years old and quite a variety of different
> sizes, so I can't just use a feeder.
>
> Any other advice? There is a lot of information on the web about what
> kind of scanner to use but a lot of it seems to assume you will crop
> out the images yourself.
>
> Peter


I find it faster and more accurate to outline the pics myself, quite
quick doing it manually on an Epson. Had problems with the software
cropping too tight sometimes cutting out shadow areas altogether. A
full load of 12 slides take about a minute to outline and activate.

Tom
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