PLEASE help me batch scan!!

[WDWAurora]

Ok, I have a scanner, I have Vista. DH's brother was able to use these two things and scan as many pics as would fit on the bed and have them automatically separate into however many individual pics. He's done 800+ pics already. Well, he and DH can't manage to explain to me how to do this, and I'm out of town at my parents' house. I want to scan!!!!! Help!!! How do I make this work? I even downloaded irfanview, but I don't know what to do, period. I need scanning for dummies. I did manage to scan, but nothing separated at all. It was one big collage that I needed to crop.

Any advice is appreciated! There are SO many pics I want to scan!

 

[JR6ooo4]

You need to find out if it was the scanner software or some other software that was finding and seperating the pics from the whole page.

Mikeeee

 

[AZ JazzyJ]

If they were using Adobe Photoshop as part of the work flow there is an option in Photoshop CS and above called "Crop and Straighten Photos" under the File Menu in Automate. This will take a bed full of scans and create individual photos of them.

Jeff

 

[WDWAurora]

Hmm...I have photoshop, just not on this computer. They weren't using it, but I could later (it's not in this city). Good to know, thanks!

 

[Groucho]

Ok, I have a scanner, I have Vista. DH's brother was able to use these two things and scan as many pics as would fit on the bed and have them automatically separate into however many individual pics. He's done 800+ pics already. Well, he and DH can't manage to explain to me how to do this, and I'm out of town at my parents' house. I want to scan!!!!! Help!!! How do I make this work? I even downloaded irfanview, but I don't know what to do, period. I need scanning for dummies. I did manage to scan, but nothing separated at all. It was one big collage that I needed to crop.

You started out right. Let me see if I can help you the rest of the way.

To do batch scanning in Irfanview, launch it (duh ), and go to File, Acquire/Batch Scanning (or hit ctrl-shift-A). Select Multiple Images, set your filename, starting number, increment, number of digits, destination directory, and format. Hit OK and it will launch your scanner's TWAIN scanning tool. The next step varies depending on your scanner maker, but basically, just scan the photo as you want, Irfanview will automatically save it, and continue on to the next one. Irfanview will then save that one with an incremented number, and so on, until you're finished.

Good luck!

 

[WDWAurora]

You started out right. Let me see if I can help you the rest of the way.

To do batch scanning in Irfanview, launch it (duh ), and go to File, Acquire/Batch Scanning (or hit ctrl-shift-A). Select Multiple Images, set your filename, starting number, increment, number of digits, destination directory, and format. Hit OK and it will launch your scanner's TWAIN scanning tool. The next step varies depending on your scanner maker, but basically, just scan the photo as you want, Irfanview will automatically save it, and continue on to the next one. Irfanview will then save that one with an incremented number, and so on, until you're finished.

Good luck!

Very helpful. I guess I want it to automatically detect multiple images, though. Can I do that with irfanview?

 

[WDWAurora]

Very helpful. I guess I want it to automatically detect multiple images, though. Can I do that with irfanview?

That sounded sarcastic, but I was really being serious!! Thanks for all the help!!

 

[Groucho]

I assume that what you're after is to scan in a whole page (with a few different photos on it) then have it automatically crop and separate each photo?

Usually, that kind of thing is more a function of the TWAIN driver than the program that is doing the saving (like Irfanview). By and large, I think you're going to have to manually select each photo and scan it separately. I'm pretty sure that with Irfanview and Epson's software (which I use), you can do this without having to do a new preview scan each time, so it's pretty fast 'n' easy, but you still have to manually select each photo.

 

[WDWAurora]

Rats! That's what I was afraid of.