Comments on: GraphicConverter 5.4 http://mjtsai.com/blog/2004/11/30/graphicconverter-54/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:18:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: chris http://mjtsai.com/blog/2004/11/30/graphicconverter-54/#comment-3915 chris Wed, 01 Dec 2004 20:48:09 +0000 /?p=926#comment-3915 Yet something else new one learns during the day. My Canon scanner may begin to see more usage now. I loved the PaperPort. The law firm I worked at in New Orleans made extensive use of the PaperPort, and all of the tech support staff had one as well. It was great, and I miss its capable easy of use. Yet something else new one learns during the day. My Canon scanner may begin to see more usage now.

I loved the PaperPort. The law firm I worked at in New Orleans made extensive use of the PaperPort, and all of the tech support staff had one as well. It was great, and I miss its capable easy of use.

]]> By: Michael http://mjtsai.com/blog/2004/11/30/graphicconverter-54/#comment-3847 Michael Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:15:00 +0000 /?p=926#comment-3847 My HP scanner software outputs either multi-page PDFs or single-page TIFFs. The files are always created in grayscale, even though I'm scanning black-and-white documents, so they're huge and don't compress well. Before GraphicConverter 5.4, I didn't know of a good way to shrink them. ImageMagick theoretically should have worked, but it couldn't read the files that I gave it. Now, it's easy. I can feed a whole stack of documents into the scanner. Then use "tiffutil -cat" to join the single-page TIFFs. Then give GraphicConverter a whole folder of them and tell it to convert them to 1-bit and compress with Group 4. A four-page document shrinks from about 120 MB to 350K. I was feeling pretty good about this until I remembered that, sheet feeding aside, PaperPort solved this problem in 1996. My HP scanner software outputs either multi-page PDFs or single-page TIFFs. The files are always created in grayscale, even though I'm scanning black-and-white documents, so they're huge and don't compress well. Before GraphicConverter 5.4, I didn't know of a good way to shrink them. ImageMagick theoretically should have worked, but it couldn't read the files that I gave it.

Now, it's easy. I can feed a whole stack of documents into the scanner. Then use "tiffutil -cat" to join the single-page TIFFs. Then give GraphicConverter a whole folder of them and tell it to convert them to 1-bit and compress with Group 4. A four-page document shrinks from about 120 MB to 350K.

I was feeling pretty good about this until I remembered that, sheet feeding aside, PaperPort solved this problem in 1996.

]]> By: Matt http://mjtsai.com/blog/2004/11/30/graphicconverter-54/#comment-3838 Matt Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:08:01 +0000 /?p=926#comment-3838 <blockquote><i> This will make it much easier for me to archive my paper documents.</i></blockquote> Why?

This will make it much easier for me to archive my paper documents.

Why?

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