Flat bed Scanners.

Jerry suggested : I guess the best you can do is rename the file after scanning with a "Renamer",
Best Download Site: download.cnet.com/Batch-File-Renamer/3000-2248_4-10781978.html

Gee, thanks Jerry, thanks very much for going to the trouble.
Batch renaming is a doddle with my ACDSee which I employ as a defacto Windows Explorer.
If I scan 36 stamps, it would have been nice to have them dated, apart from the *.jpg date which is not fixed.
I like to know when I address or deal with a stamp.
Cheers

Thanks Andy, looks interesting, have downloaded the user manual for an appraisal.

I'm not where my scanner is right now, and, without it plugged, the Epson scanner software won't let me open it up, so I'm doing this from memory:

Assuming you and I have at all similar versions of the software, you ought to be able to change the "File001" to anything you want. The only requirement is that the software wants to append that "001" counter on to however you name it.

Let's say you're getting ready to scan some Japan pages. Before you start scanning, you can change both the default destination folder and the filename nomenclature. (Again, I'm operating from memory, but click on a little file folder icon up near the top of Epson software window. After you click on that icon, another little window opens up where you can browse and navigate to the desired file folder, and then specify how you want the files named. Instead of "File"..., you could say, "Japan-2014-01-31-", make sure the counter next to that field is reset back to "0", and then your first scan will be named "Japan-2014-01-31-001", your second one "Japan-2014-01-31-002", etc.

If you're only concerned about the date, without regard to country or topic, you could just specify the nomenclature as "2014-01-31-". (If you don't add that last "-", then the counter number will run into your last characters ("31" in this case).

And you don't have to use my file naming conventions for dates. (Although putting the year first, then the month, and then the day, will always have them sort in sequence if your Windows file folder view is alphabetical.)

Would this work for you, Rod? You *would* need to change the date each day that you scan.

(And sorry I'm not clearer, but hopefully the point will come across. If not, I'll give it another go a little later on.)

-- Dave

Finally, if you do need/want to rename file names after the fact, you can do batch renaming through Irfanview, if you're familiar with that. I'll also take a look at the software Jerry linked to, in case it's easier to use than that function within Irfanview.

-- D

Update:  I see that that other software is free to try but needs to eventually be purchased, so I'm going to stay with Irfanview, which does everything I need it to do for batch renaming. 

That's great, Rod! Then it seems like you could just add the day to your string and you'd be set. I appreciate that that's not as simple as having the software always keeping track of it, but my settings are set so that it asks me to confirm the right filename anyway, so it always reminds me that I might need to change the date. (Since I do it by country or topic, that's usually enough of a prompt for me anyway to change it.)

I, too, have wondered why Windows didn't do that. Probably too powerful a capability. You ("one") can do some real damage if you don't know what you're doing. I'm from back in the days when DOS was the latest and greatest (and mainframes before that), so it's a pretty second-nature practice for me.

-- Dave

Scanners.
Any members had experience with large format scanners?

I have a large collection of Australia Post Advertising Posters, going back to the 1960's
They are generally around the size  24 inch  x 36 inch

Do scanners come that big,  do processing houses (Officeworks Aust) do that sort of thing ?
I'd like to make up a PDF of my collection,  which currently resides in cardboard tubes.

I can ring Officeworks tomorrow, but would be interested in any other user history?
Thanks.

Also interested in users of Book scanners if anyone has used them.

Yay!   thanks Zuzu,  $2.40 each
I'll post an example when I get to the City and have some scanned.

Hi Dave, well I thought photography would be my only route, but seems there are huge flatbed scanners,
but then, how do I reduce to an image that will handle normal A4 size?
This is all new territory for me,   kinda learning on the run.
I have seen small plan cabinets for sale, at auctions, I may have to look at buying one, as my collection grows.

That's exactly what I meant Dave, I was concerned a reduced size, may begin to pixellate, or blur.
I'll wait till I get the large scans, then begin to meddle.

And I apologize for sounding like a broken record (would anyone under the age of 30 even know what this means?! ), but as long as you're working from digital copies of your digital original files, you can meddle with abandon .