From: V@nguard.LH   
      
   knuttle  wrote:   
      
   > VanguardLH wrote:   
   >   
   >> Sorry, what I meant to ask is how to stitch together 14x8.5 legal size   
   >> paper to save in PDF files.  I don't need to print them.   
   >   
   > Have you looked at the parameters of your printer?   
   >   
   > I have had several HP printers/scanners that could scan legal size paper.   
   >   
   > My last two could scan legal documents from its auto feed, or on the   
   > flat bed scanner.   
   >   
   > Of course I had to change the printer parameter to the legal size paper,   
   > but that was just clicking legal size in the printer set up.   
      
   I also read where scanners with auto-feed could span legal-sized scans.   
   They feed just enough for the first scan, and feed a bit more for the   
   second scan, and stitch the scans together.  Mine doesn't have   
   auto-feed.  Plus, not all auto-feeders can incrementally scan a larger   
   document.   
      
   Then there's the trick where you fold the paper in half, scan, turn   
   over, and scan again to stitch together.  That what I did for now.  I   
   would the paper in half, but ensure the fold was not over a line of text   
   (i.e., the fold was in white space), scan, flip over, scan again, and   
   stitch together.  When scanning, I picked "B4 (B5 x 2)" for output size.   
   Per the app's instructions, the result had the 2nd scan shifted to the   
   left, to the stitched-together page had the top (1st scan) in the middle   
   with the bottom (2nd scan) shifted to the left.  I tried to position the   
   paper partway from the alignment point in the corner of the platen   
   trying to get top and bottom to align, but other problems arose, so I   
   just left the stitching with top in middle, and bottom shifted to the   
   left.  Not an ideal setup, and very time consuming.   
      
   I didn't like the trick of using a camera, like in a smartphone, to take   
   pics of the legal-sized paper to save in a PDF file.  Problems with   
   angle, lighting, focal length, and so on.  You could easily tell those   
   were photos of the papers.  Looked amatuerish.  But then my method of   
   stitching wasn't that great, either.   
      
   Typical scanners move the scan head across the platen to read the   
   document.  That's where the physical size of the platen comes into play   
   regarding documents that are larger.  So, I thought, instead of having   
   the scan head move across the paper, why not have the paper move across   
   the scan head.  I checked, and there are continuous feed scanners.  I   
   mentioned a couple I found in a quick search in a reply to myself (MID   
   ).   
      
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