From: alan@invalid.com   
      
   On 1/15/26 4:13 PM, VanguardLH wrote:   
   > Looking to scan 8.5 x 14 (legal) paper documents into 8.5 x 11 paper.  I   
   > have Canon's Scan & Stitch, but the halves of each end of the 8.5 x 14   
   > scan don't match up.  The top half (1st scan) is offset from the bottom   
   > half (2nd scan).  What I get after scan and stitch looks like:   
   >   
   >          **********   
   >          **********   
   >          **********        (1st scan, top of legal doc)   
   >          ********** <--.   
   >          ********** <--|__ overlap (same content)   
   >     **********      <--|   
   >     **********      <--'   
   >     **********             (2nd scan, bottom of legal doc)   
   >     **********   
   >     **********   
   >   
   > Canon's tool does not align top with bottom.  Plus it overlaps   
   > (duplicates) some content from top into bottom.  Looking for a free tool   
   > that will scan, and stitch the top and bottom of a legal-sized document   
   > with the top and bottom aligned with each other.   
   >   
   > I did find Hugin (https://hugin.sourceforge.io/), but that seems   
   > oriented to stitching together multiple pics into a panoramic pic.  With   
   > text only, the alignment would be on the overlapping text between the 2   
   > scans of the top and bottom of the legal-sized page.   
   >   
   > Some users noted Arcsoft's Scan-n-Stitch, but it's not free (but maybe   
   > for the Deluxe edition), and looks like Arcsoft dropped it years ago.   
   > Apparently this is bundled with Epson printers, but likely a Lite   
   > version that is free.   
   How many are you doing?   
   If it were me, and less than 10 pages, rather than wasting time trying to find   
   an   
   automation, I'd just pull the pages into photoshop or gimp and cut and shift   
   the pages to   
   align.   
      
   That would get the picture properly into 8.5x14, but then you'd probably just   
   scale the   
   picture down to 11" tall.  The width would adjust to 6.677" so you'd wind up   
   with a   
   smaller image but it would fit on 11" fine.   
      
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