Brother 7820N MFC & paperport

[Steve]

I recently bought a Brother 7820N multifunction machine. It is bundled with
paperport software, and it's own "control center" app. It does a fine job
of scanning 50 page documents into pdfs, etc. One thing I cannot figure how
to do is set it up for doublesided documents. I would imagine I would need
to scan one side of all the pages, then scan the other side, and let the app
assemble it all into one pdf. Is this possible with this machine, and any
software?

Thanks,
Steve

 

[Clarence klopfstein]

I recently bought a Brother 7820N multifunction machine. It is bundled with
paperport software, and it's own "control center" app. It does a fine job
of scanning 50 page documents into pdfs, etc. One thing I cannot figure how
to do is set it up for doublesided documents. I would imagine I would need
to scan one side of all the pages, then scan the other side, and let the app
assemble it all into one pdf. Is this possible with this machine, and any
software?

Thanks,
Steve

Our Art-Copy Business software should be able to convert your scanner
into a duplex scanner.

http://www.art-copy.com

Demo's are available.

 

[Steve M]

Clarence,

I downloaded and installed "art-copy". Nowhere in the application or in the
help menus does it discuss manual duplexing. There is a dialog to set up
namual duplexing for printing in my Brother 7820N's "advanced printer
preferences" page, but not scanning. Regardless, I set up the "printer" to
do this, then scanned my four-page double-sided original with art-copy using
"scan to application", flipping over the original and choosing "yes" when it
asked me if I "want to scan another batch". Didn't work. It created a pdf
with the pages numbers in the order 1-3-4-2, which is the order the app
scanned the pages in. If this app can do this trick, I cannot find it.
Please let me know.

Thanks,
Steve

 

[Clarence klopfstein]

Steve,
Chances are you downloaded the wrong version of Art-Copy.

You need either the business version, enterprise version or the
scripting edition.

But if not....

Open the program and go to file->setup. Then in there go to the scan
tab, and you will need the following boxes checked.

Save multiple images into one image file (TIFF, PDF).
Scan from Automatic Document Feeder (ADF)
Duplex (software supported).

Then thats it. You will scan the one side, and then scan the other
side. And you will have a correctly ordered PDF file. Also try the
scan to file first. Just to make sure that whatever app you are using
isn't causing us a conflict (and if you are seeing different behavior,
let me know).

Hope this helps.

ck

 

[mgfv43]

I recently bought a Brother 7820N multifunction machine. It is bundled with
paperport software, and it's own "control center" app. It does a fine job
of scanning 50 page documents into pdfs, etc. One thing I cannot figure how
to do is set it up for doublesided documents. I would imagine I would need
to scan one side of all the pages, then scan the other side, and let the app
assemble it all into one pdf. Is this possible with this machine, and any
software?

Thanks,
Steve

PaperPort can handle double-sided scanning.

But it depends on which version you have, and if it is the retail
product, or a bundled "light" edition.

Read the Help file in PaperPort.

Also see if there is an option to use PaperPort's own scanner
interface. That will depend on the version.

On which, the next version of PaperPort, PP11, is about to be
released.

It is streets ahead of PP10, which was a disaster. PP11 has an
excellent scanner interface that can do all sorts of neat things with
scans, like straightening, cropping and orientating them.

I have been beta testing it, which is how I know what it does.

MK

 

[Steve M]

My Brother MFC machine came with Paperport SE version 9. There is no sign
of duplexing on that one!

 

[Steve M]

Yes, I downloaded the business version of Art-Copy, and the duplex button
was there...

Is there a limit to the size of file, or number of pages, in a scanned pdf?
I did one of about 150 pages (75 doublesided sheets, B&W, 200dpi), and the
application's window has been blanked-out for the past several minutes (as I
write this), presumably as it assembles the file it just scanned. Hovering
over the pdf on the desktop revealed that the filesize is slowly growing.
It might be a good idea to not have the icon of the file appear until it is
"fully cooked", and maybe a dialog saying what's going on in the meantime.

 

[Clarence klopfstein]

Steve,
We actually did deal with this issue in the enterprise version.

We threaded the process so it makes it much faster, it will start
building the PDF while it is still scanning. In the current business
version it doesn't build the PDF until after its finished scanning.

But there is no real size limit on the size of the PDF.

ck

 

[Clarence klopfstein]

PLUS... _FROM_WHAT_I_HERE_ you don't get near the support you'd get from
Scanhelp

ck

 

[mgfv43]

You paid nothing for PaperPort, so you get a stripped (SE) down
version designed for that scanner.

If this is not a duplex scanner, then no way will it offer that
feature. If it is, then you should talk to Brother. They will have
specified the way on which the software operates with their scanner.
They may have some tweaks to get things to work properly.

If you look on eBay, or even your local store. you may find a proper
version of PP9 for next to nothing. (Avoid buying PP10.)

There are two flavours of PaperPort DeLuxe and Pro. The one that suits
you is down to personal preference and how much you are prepared to
pay.

I am always amazed that people pay loads of money for their hardware
but expect to get software free. As it is the latter that lets you get
your work done, this is assbackwards.

MK

 

[mgfv43]

The best place to get help with PaperPort is not ScanSoft, but the
band of users that has struggled to make the thing work for them.

There aren't many issues they have not seen and addresses. ScanSoft,
or Nuance as it now is, even listens to them.

There is a PaperPort group on Yahoo! for example.

I know nothing about Artcopy. It may be the world's best software. The
web site, though, seems to be one or two generations behind the
cutting edge. not that this is always a bad thing.

MK

 

[Clarence klopfstein]

I know nothing about Artcopy. It may be the world's best software. The
web site, though, seems to be one or two generations behind the
cutting edge. not that this is always a bad thing.

We have made a deliberate decision on our website. With us being a
smaller company we can't just rely on people finding us by name
recognition. So we have to develop our website to be Google/Yahoo
friendly. And that means less flash, or neat images and much more text.

ck

 

[CSM1]

We have made a deliberate decision on our website. With us being a
smaller company we can't just rely on people finding us by name
recognition. So we have to develop our website to be Google/Yahoo
friendly. And that means less flash, or neat images and much more text.

ck

To be Google/Yahoo friendly you just need the content and text that is about
your site content.

Meta tags in your header of each web page, don't hurt either. The Two most
important Meta tags are "CONTENT" and "DESCRIPTION" and the text following
those tags.

You do not need Flash or Macromedia to make a web site appealing. You just
need a subject that people want to click.

The most important thing for Google page rankings is other web sites having
links to your site.
That takes time for people to like and link to your site. Postings in Usenet
with links to your site is helpful also, just NO SPAM.

You will notice my signature includes a link to my site. That link appears
every time this message is copied, unless somebody deletes it.