scanning multiple pages in vista home basic with hp 5510 printer

[Guest]

hi,

the hp printer is an old one (5510) - there is no vista driver but i can get
the scan working (via Windows Photo Gallery -> File -> Import from Camera or
Scanner)

If i scan this way, each page is created into a new file. Is there a way to
scan multiple pages into the one file? say into a PDF?

Cheers,

 

[Dave]

I don't see how to do that in WPG.
I use Vuescan, which will let you scan multi-page PDF or TIFF files.
($39.95)
http://www.hamrick.com

A work-around would be to scan to individual files, then print several to a
PDF file, using a program like CutePDF Writer (free)
http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

 

[huwyngr]

If this is an older HP scanner using TWAIN then that is not compatible
with the builtin scanning in VISTA (if you have the right version of
VISTA to even have scanning).

But I'm using a very old HP SJ5P scanner that uses TWAIN and with the
even older Deskscan 2.9 HP software it works fine under VISTA from the
HP software but it also puts a Scan To link into Irfanview graphics
editor and into WORD 2002.

Unless you find another solution try installing Irfanview (it's free
and wonderful) and see if the Scan to function there allows you to
combine images into one file. I have an idea my Deskcan 2.9 does not
although the OCR software I used to use did.

http://www.irfanview.com/ and get the plug-ins as well.

PS -- Irfanview does do multiple image into one file scanning (called
Acquire):

If you are using the TIF format for output, you can create a multipage
TIF file from the scanned images (only one file is saved as result, no
increment).

That's from version 3.99 but 4.0 is available now and may allow more.
Don't worry about TIF format -- one of the very powerful features of
Irfanview is converting from one graphics format to another so if you
make a TIF file and want it as JPG it will do that afterwards!

 

[Guest]

thank you very much for your responses, let me try those free options and if
i run into any troubles, i'll let you know

a shame how vista doesnt have this option prebuilt for older printers