Efficient card scanning

[Karl]

I'm trying to figure out the best way to scan a large number of cards (hundreds). TTS needs them in batches of no more than 69 in a 10x7 arrangement. The problem I have is my scanner only does 8.5x11. So I can fit 3x3 cards portrait, or 4x2 landscape. But neither of those arrangements really lends itself well to fitting into a 10x7 set.

So I'm trying to figure out the most efficient and least troublesome way to do that, preferably where I can just tile the images I get from the scanner without having to do a lot of cutting and moving things around in GIMP to fill out the 10x7 set.

These are the arrangements I've come up with that seem like the easiest to do.

https://imgur.com/a/vLwkdoi 68 cards - 9 scans - 1 cut

https://imgur.com/a/94c7vnU 68 cards - 8 scans - 1 cut

The latter is also probably easier to keep up with since it's just 4 portrait scans and 4 landscape scans. Is that the most sensible way to do it? What does everyone else do?

[Bone White]

Personally, I scan individual cards, clean them up, then merge them into "deck sheets".

[Karl]

Originally posted by Bone White:

Personally, I scan individual cards, clean them up, then merge them into "deck sheets".

What if you had 645 cards to scan in?

[Bone White]

Then I'd scan in 645 cards individually.

[Karl]

Originally posted by Bone White:

Then I'd scan in 645 cards individually.

I'm not sure what the point in that would be. The DPI on the scanner is the same whether I scan one card or several.

[tf2 pomson enjoyer #FIXVACPLS]

Originally posted by Karl:

Originally posted by Bone White:

Personally, I scan individual cards, clean them up, then merge them into "deck sheets".

What if you had 645 cards to scan in?

Why do you need to scan 645 cards anyway?

[Yagoo]

I use a pirated copy of photoshop to do it automatically.

[Bone White]

The point is that i want individual images for various reasons, and it's far easier to clean up a single card from a single scan than multiple cards on a single scan. It's about 30 seconds a card, then a mass edit using imagemagick (or something else) on all the scanned images, and now I have near-perfect card images all at the same width and height to do with what I want (such as tesselate into decksheets)

[Karl]

Originally posted by tf2 pomson enjoyer #FIXVACPLS:

Originally posted by Karl:

What if you had 645 cards to scan in?

Why do you need to scan 645 cards anyway?

Because I have in my possession 645 Boss Monster cards. But I ended up reusing cards already on the workshop for most of it and only had to scan in a couple sets myself. I also scanned and modeled the boxes and made a set of play mats.

[elendil]

Which game are you scanning?