DIN A4 Autoscan with Flipbook

[JoelMayer]

Hi there

Has anyone of you europeans figured out the right settings for A4 scanning with Flipbook? My pegs are clearly visible on the scan, since i taped down some black tape on the scanner but it still wont register automatically....

Thanks for your help!

Cheers-

[zanekohler]

I am sure you probably checked and know... but is your scanner twain? From my understanding unless the import is twain it wont register them. Not sure if that would be the same for European scanners or not?

[andrew sharp]

Arrrrg flip book auto scan:(
I cant get it to work either so it means taping a peg bar to the scanner a slow process. TVPaint has an auto registration system built in but its an expensive program:(. If you find a solution I would be intrested in learning the trick.

[OwenWelsh]

Joel I resisted posting this because its not helpful info but I too was unable to get flipbooks registration to work. I even bought the same scanner that Don uses, now it just sits in the closet. It would register like 70% of my drawings but there would always be a few that it didn't and it was very frustrating. I will say this, contact flipbook. They have excellent customer support and are very quick to reply and help troubleshoot issues you are having, we were just unable to resolve mine.

[JoelMayer]

I wrote them, here's their answer:

The field size value is the width of the image in inches.
The offset for a standard field guide/paper punch is 5.25.

The paper size doesn't matter as much as the way the holes are punched.
Make sure you scan at 300 DPI B&W (NOT GRAY SCALE) and crop the image as nearly as you can to the correct size. Then adjust the brightness until you get good clean images and proper registration on your scans.

I havent tried it out yet but i will do it this week and let you know.

[DNethery]

I wrote them, here's their answer:

"The field size value is the width of the image in inches.
The offset for a standard field guide/paper punch is 5.25.

The paper size doesn't matter as much as the way the holes are punched.

Make sure you scan at 300 DPI B&W (NOT GRAY SCALE) and crop the image as nearly as you can to the correct size. Then adjust the brightness until you get good clean images and proper registration on your scans."

I haven't tried it out yet but i will do it this week and let you know.


Did it work ?