From: V@nguard.LH   
      
   knuttle  wrote:   
      
   > On 01/15/2026 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.   
   >   
   > When I have that situation, I use Irfanview.   You can join images   
   > either at the top of the images or on the side.  Older version of   
   > Irfanview called this the panorama. current version calls it Merging images.   
   >   
   > I use it for cutting images from books and newspapers.  With Irfanview I   
   > can then add source information to the images, and then save it as a PDF   
   > file which I find easier to maneuver around in than a JPG.   
      
   For 250+ pages in a document?  Very tedious.  I don't need to print the   
   stitched documents, just store them in a PDF.  But scanning the   
   oversized pages means having to stitch them together.  For a photo, or   
   two, yeah, I've see the panorama programs, but that would be a slow   
   solution.   
      
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