Scanning a Cover Page with Answers Along the Long Edge

Check first that the Scanning Options is set to black-and-white, single-sided, resolution 300 dpi, and 30-50% brightness. Make sure the Input Page Size and the Onput Page Size are set to to Letter, and Orientation is set to Same as Original

For each group,

Feed into the scanner face up, answer form entering first. The side rails should be not quite tight, but close, to keep the forms well aligned.
scan and send to your email.

Then when back on your computer,

Save the emails in the directory in which you will do the grading, with names in a sequence such as scanN.pdf. Keep the number of characters in N constant (so you might start with scan01.pdf if you have more than 9 batches).
For each emailed file scanN.pdf, execute
gs -sDEVICE=pbmraw -r300 -o scanN%03d.pbm scanN.pdf
[Note: this will work on physlinux2 and other linux machines (shell), but not on the Suns. ]

At this point, you will have a file scanxyyy.pbm for each student, where x is whatever replaced N. Now execute

ls scan*.pbm > inputlist
flipit180
This will create files scanxyyyflip.pbm for each student, which are rotated so that the answer form on the right.
ls scan*flip.pbm > inputlist
Check for one file now on inputlist with gthumb `head -1 inputlist` that the answers are on the right. If this is not correct, get help from me]

Now return to the main scanning page.

Last modified: Thu May 3 12:07:28 2018