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the process of converting an image, printed text, handwriting, etc. into a digital image by using a scanner

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I'd like to scan some photos with a 48-bit color depth in macOS Tahoe. My scanner is a Canon LiDE 400. It claims to support "scanning mode" of "48-bit Internal / 48-bit or 24-bit ...
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I am about to scan my photo collection. To save time, I would like to scan multiple photos at once. How can I automate the splitting of photos in a single scan?
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Lately my Mac cannot connect to any scanners. I get this error message every time I open the system scan tool on any of the connected scanners: Failed to open a connection to the device (-21345) I've ...
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First off, I hope this is correct forum and not Stack Exchange for instance. I have Apple M3 Max chip MacBook Pro running Sequoia 15.4.1 With the last 2 OS updates I've received the attached Mac ...
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Preview has forever been my go to app on Apple. Trusted, versatile, a major component in my workflow. Now it appears to be potentially handicapped (in Sonoma 14.14.1) because it is attaching ...
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When scanning images using the default macOS Scanner app (from Printers & Scanners) I noticed that when I do a 600 dpi scan and choose a lossless image format like PNG or BMP, the resulting image ...
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When I use Image Capture to scan a 4x6 print photo on my flatbed scanner at 600 dpi, with no rotation applied to the bounding box, the resulting TIFF file is generally around 11 MB in size, and the ...
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Does anyone know how to scan a QR code that is on your screen? I am reading a online book with a QR codes and it is to much of a hassle to take another device to scan the codes.
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The Notes app has a nice feature to "scan" a letter by clicking the camera icon and selecting "scan document". This will use the camera, search for a letter-like object, correct ...
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I have an old HP scanner (HP Scanjet g4010) and I would like to use it with the macOS 12.3.1 Monterey. I tried to download the drivers but it still doesn't work. Because I have seen that there are ...
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I have a Brother MFC-2740DW that I have been using for many years. For over a year I have had it connected to the local network via wifi. It has a scanner function, which I normally use via the ...
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I'm running macOS 14.1 (23B74). I have a Canon MF656Cdw. I find if I scan from the document feeder using Preview, it will sometimes break up the scan into separate PDFs in a way that's, well, ...
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I have some devices BLE (based on ESP32-S3) that do not appear on the bluetooth scan list of my M2 MacBook Pro but I can see them using a PC. This is my MacBook bluetooth system report: Bluetooth ...
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I have a 352 page pdf that is a scan of a black-and-white text. The file size is 60.9 MB, which seems excessively large too me. (Is it indeed?) Is there an easy way to convert this file to a more ...
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I have scanned a document and turned it into a PDF. When I open that PDF in Preview, I would have expected all of the text in the doc to be selectable via Live Text, but it's not. However, if I take a ...
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