I retain a Windows VM specifically and solely to run a scanner driver for my ten year old ScanSnap S1500. It works just fine!
Hi, Just wanted to point out that the SANE project has complete support for the ScanSnap S1500.[1]
I can highly recommend using xsane [2] (the graphical front-end application from the SANE project) with your host OS, makes it all much more streamlined. I am writing up documentation myself about using the S1300i on Linux, it's a great device.
I did look into using SANE (many years ago now) but I couldn’t find any equivalent to the Fujitsu software to do things like auto-rotate, auto-de-skew, control over multi-page PDF output, long page scanning, continuous scanning, … a ton of stuff that the ScanSnap Manager does to make it all smooth and easy.
I’d be interested in reading your writeup, particularly if something has changed in the last few years.
For stuff like auto-rotate, auto-de-skew, multipage PDF output; those can all be handled by external programs, and realistically that's what I'd recommend.
convert (part of imagemagick) can handle rotate and page merging, as well as conversion to other formats.
For de-skew, and possibly other features you're looking for, ScanTailor [1] is probably a good option. Can't speak on it's functional quality though, I prefer to manually fix skew for photos.
Convert also has a deskew option [2], but I've not tested it, and a few online results [4] seem to point to it not working that well.
There's also OCRmyPDF [3] which I found excellent for OCRing scanned print documents.
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Below are some notes on the other things you mentioned. Sorry about the formatting, I couldn't find anything about markdown or HTML on HN. I just copied this from Zim
Long page scanning
* In the main xsane control window (upper left normally), select the Window tab, select Show standard options
* Keyboard shortcut: CTRL+5
* If the Standard Options window is already open, click the option again after it closes, to reopen it.
* In the Standard Options menu, set page height to 0.000.
* This allows the scanner to scan documents longer than standard A4 sizing. For example, you can scan legal sized or longer documents.
* The scanner with continue scanning the document until the paper exits the scanner physically.
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Continuous scanning:
On the main xsane window, change the following settings:
* Where it says ADF Front or ADF Back, change to ADF Duplex if you are scanning duplex. Alternatively change to ADF Front or ADF Back if you know which side you want scanned.
* If you are scanning Duplex, change the number 1 to 2; next to the icon of 4 papers on top of each other
* This represents how many pages are scanned.
\* If you have multiple documents in the feeder (as the S1300i supports loading 20 documents at a time), you should set the number of pages to scan (same option) to either the number of pages, if scanning single sided, or DOUBLE the total number of pages, if scanning Duplex.
\* Alternatively, set it to a number higher than 40, and the scanner will continue scanning until there are no pages left.
[2] https://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#...
[3] https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF
[4] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41546181/how-to-deskew-a...