Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!aioe.org!news.mb-net.net!open-news-network.org!news.mind.de!news.cs.uni-magdeburg.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Tom Stiller Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Software that offers "rotate to line?" (for scanning) Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 06:25:03 -0500 Organization: Old Men With Beards Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net i0jD9uPqn9t2cTOeJELOCwaadAGPAt5JXmjxhYwj8VPmz/5c9P X-Orig-Path: tom_stiller Cancel-Lock: sha1:3t13LIvEZ8vPUGnLyOmojqo98cc= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b2 (Intel Mac OS X) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.sys.mac.apps:488 In article , arnstein@panix.com (David Arnstein) wrote: > In article , > Tom Stiller wrote: > >The bundled Image Capture will do this. In fact, if you have a flatbed > >scanner, you can direct it to separate and align multiple images at > >once. I've used it to scan a stack of old photos. > > I did not notice the Image Capture App because my scanner software > (Epson) seems to muscle it out of the way. > > I launched Image Capture and I found the "rotate to line" feature. A > poor implementation, but better than nothing. And it's free! > > Thank you Tom. I appreciate the clue. While you can use the "rotate to line" feature, it usually isn't necessary. I think the displayed just indicates what the app considers horizontal. The saved images are rotated, even their screen image doesn't show it.