tiffscan is an advanced SANE frontend. It has batch mode capabilities and can generate compressed multi-page TIFF files. It handles from black and white to 16 bit RBG+infrared scans.
tiffscan is Copyright (C) 2007-12 by Alessandro Zummo and is released under the GPL, version 2.
tiffscan requires libpaper, libtiff and libpopt. Run make to compile it.
If you want to build against a specific include and/or lib path, use
INCDIR=/your/path/to/include LIBDIR=/your/path/to/libs make
To obtain help:
tiffscan --help
To list known devices:
tiffscan --list-devices
To list backend-specific options:
tiffscan --device .... --help
Simple scan:
tiffscan --device .... --scan
Batch scan:
tiffscan --device .... --scan --batch --paper a4
Batch scan to a single, compressed, multi-page TIFF file
tiffscan --device .... --scan --batch --compress --multi-page
Batch scan, prompt before each page
tiffscan --device .... --scan --batch --batch-prompt
Batch scan to an user-defined file series:
tiffscan --device .... --scan --batch --output-file my-scanned-page-%04d.tif
tiffscan --device ... --load
tiffscan --device ... --scan --autofocus --ae-wb
tiffscan --device ... --scan --autofocus --ae-wb --depth=12
tiffscan --device ... --eject
(requires experimental coolscan3 driver):
tiffscan --device ... --scan --autofocus --ae-wb --depth=12 --infrared=yes
Once the infrared image is obtained, you can use Ed Hamrick's Vuescan to do cleaning and restoring (http://www.hamrick.com/) .
Automatic batch scanning from slide autoloader (requires experimental coolscan3 driver) or SANE Evolution:
tiffscan --device ... --scan --batch --autofocus=yes --ae-wb=yes --autoload=yes
This should be enough to start using tiffscan. If you have any question, please write me at a.zummo@towertech.it.