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Scan in jpeg/gif with multi page?

  • 14-05-2007 12:52pm
    #1
    warrenaldo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭


    Hi folks,

    I am developing a system that requires me to scan in documents in jpeg or gif files.
    This works great assuming you can scan in 1 page documents.

    But i was wondering - do scanners allow you to scan multiple pages into 1 jpeg or gif image?

    Ive heard/seen its possible with tiff - but not so sure about jpg? any help please


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  • #2
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,499 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Not that I know of. There is a format called "multi-page TIFF" that is often used, for example, by FAX software.

    Why do they have to be GIF/JPEG?


  • #3
    warrenaldo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭warrenaldo


    because ive designed my program so that they will upload gifs and jpegs - it was not easy to do and cannot easily change - so i am hoping and praying that gifs/jpegs allow it also. surely if i renamed a tiff as a jpeg then it would work?


  • #4
    LillyVanilli
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 268 ✭✭LillyVanilli


    I just renamed a multipaged tiff doc as .jpg and it opened fine for me. I dont think there is a way to scan it as a .jpg originally though, I think it has to be .tiff


  • #5
    warrenaldo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭warrenaldo


    oh yes - it des work when just renaming the file! cheers.


  • #6
    LillyVanilli
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 268 ✭✭LillyVanilli


    It depends what you open it with, If you open it with Windows picture and Fax viewer and not Microsoft Office Picture Manager, it works fine and you can see all the pages.


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  • #7
    warrenaldo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭warrenaldo


    its grand. if i rename it - it works prefectly. i was programming my own viewer and it would not open tiffs - so i was needing to convert them to gifs and jpegs. but it now works with tiffs - so super. now all i need to do is make sure that if i am using a scanner does it scan in in tiff format - from what i read and hear a lot of scanners scan in tiff - is that true?


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