In the first batch I crop out the left-hand page, and save all those in a folder called "evens" then I similarly get the right-hand pages saved in "odds". If I've scanned a small book 2-up, then I open a page and note down the pixel dimensions of where I want to split it. Split and rotate, using GraphicConverter's batch features (if necessary).But ReadIris' interface is so slow: it complains if you click to acquire another page while it's still thinking about the first one, whereas GraphicConverter registers the request and acts on it as soon as it's ready. The other possibility was to scan into the OCR program. Also, it doesn't allow you to see the image you've just scanned, so I found that if I was chopping edges off or something I wouldn't know untill I'd done many pages that had to be discarded. I found that scanning just from my scanner's interface meant I couldn't save as PNG, only JPEG, TIFF or PICT, thus adding an extra conversion to the process. Scan in grayscale, directly into GraphicConverter.Maybe what I write here will help another mac user get started? Maybe someone will read this and tell me of a much better way? Or maybe it will just stay here as a reminder to me of what to do in what order, and why. Now that I've scanned more than 10, and experimented a bit, I'm beginning to learn what seems to work. When I began providing content for DP (mainly because I acquired rather a lot of old maths books all of a sudden) there didn't seem to be much advice around for how to do things on a mac.
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