Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

Overall Win 10 has been OK of the three systems I have it on. My home computer, the big workstation and my MIL's home system. She upgraded to 10 because she was not paying attention to what was upgrading. I removed all the extra crap she will never use and she can still use her email and do Quicken.

[RKDinOKC]

The commonly used terms for a large unspecific number of things or occurrences is Fifty-Eleven, Umpteen, $hit-Load, or Whole $hit-Load.

[GH85Carrera]

I was looking through the spam box and now I am getting "solutions to my pregnancy issues" and COPD treatment offers. They still want me to rent a yacht and a jet. The other strange one is "permanent dental implants" and I have to wonder, who would get a temporary dental implant? I guess I am a wealthy, pregnant toothless person with COPD to the spammers.

[RKDinOKC]

At work, according to the spam with all of my unresolved health issues it's a miracle I'm still alive so I need to go shopping, fix up my house, take a vacation and rent a jet or yatch.

[Porsche-poor]

morning all. few more hours and then off to home.

[Oh Haha]

I had to go pick up my son from school. He yakked in the bathroom so they called for me to take him home.

Even though he hates it, he isn't one to play sick. One of his friends was out for a week recently with a stomach bug.

Both kids have had perfect attendance up to now.

I think the Windows 10 thing may be affecting him as well. I'm going to have to have my IT person look at it tonight. Pages are loading slow and pictures are even worse.

[RKDinOKC]

Speaking of yak, it's past lunchtime here!

[flipper35]

About that time here.

Quick question for you image processing peoples.

I have on one of our servers a bunch of tif files that are color and don't need to be. They could be black and white for the most part since it is mostly copies of faxes and such. I know, if the person that set it up originally had set the scanner to grey scale instead of color we wouldn't have this issue and we have gone back and forth on this for the last two years. Anyway, is there a good program to run a batch process to convert them to grey scale at least and compress them as a tif without renaming them? GIMP does great and I can get them down to about 1/10th the size but it renames them with .tiff from .TIF so that won't work without doing a batch process on the database or renaming them all again.

ImageJ looks promising but I wasn't sure on the scripting how to do some tests. Other ideas?

The guy that set this up was not me this time. The one that did has other issues such as lacking basic troubleshooting skills so I get to teach that as well. If he doesn't improve in those areas he will not be a problem here any longer.

[flipper35]

Sorry for the rant in the above. Some days he drives me crazy because if he doesn't understand it he blows it off and then when you call him on it he gets all huffy. Grow a brain dude.

[Oh Haha]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Speaking of yak, it's past lunchtime here!

He's feeling better now and we just finished the work he would have done in class.

A test of patience for sure!!

Good news is that I took Glenn's tip about removing the garbage that W10 installed and the PC is working much better.

It was either try it myself or get the BFH out.....

Did I mention that I am not a computer person?

[GH85Carrera]

Photoshop can do that but it is like bringing a sledgehammer to drive a nail to hang a picture.

You can download the free trial version and it is fully functional for 30 days but the learning curve is steep.

I presume the new versions has batch routines, we have one copy of the new version, but I have not tried batch processing with it as yet. I still like the older versions for that.

[flipper35]

I am a computer person but have been known to "recycle" a few now and then, not with a BFH but with a BFG. Sometimes two.

We also use multiple calibers on the hard drive we need to destroy, just to see how bullet resistant they are. Need to get some slugs for the 12ga to see how they do on a hard drive.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Photoshop can do that but it is like bringing a sledgehammer to drive a nail to hang a picture.

You can download the free trial version and it is fully functional for 30 days but the learning curve is steep.

I presume the new versions has batch routines, we have one copy of the new version, but I have not tried batch processing with it as yet. I still like the older versions for that.

I have PS 7.0 at home but haven't tried to batch process and compress files with it ever. GIMP was perfect other than the stupid renaming.

I am not processing stuff like you but we do have about 700GB of files to process.

[flipper35]

Our dociument management program can do batches, but it crashes most of the time and you can only do about 100 files at a time. I would like to do a whole folder at a time.

[RKDinOKC]

Googled and Edited...

There is a Shareware freebie called Graphic Converter, Mac or Win including Win10. Was the the first graphics editor to do batch processing. All kinds of options and even scripting. It will even let you save to a different location. Can't imagine it not being up to the task of making a batch of TIF files grayscale or even B/W.


Do know that when setting up a document scanning system you should double check to make sure it is scanning an saving documents with enough resolution to be able to use them. Especially if you are going to scan enough documents that the project will take a year. Also know that no matter how many documents you have already scanned no amount of processing or filters will make them more readable no matter how much resolution you add. And I don't even have to try different filters and manipulation for over a week to know that.

Also know that if you have 2 places to count things and use numbers you can count 99 things. And if you use letters, A to Z instead of numbers you can only count 676 things. And don't have to write all the possible combinations from AA to ZZ and count them to prove it.

[Noah930]

OK, I'm sitting here at IKEA (returned/exchanged something for the missus), and now watching a guy try to load 4 flats (each about 3'x3') of glass bottles into the back of his Ford Mustang. Why buy 4 flats of these things when you can only fit one in easily?

[flipper35]

They are scanned at 300dpi so readability isn't an issue since they are scans of faxes. They are every bit as messed up as the original fax.

This is the second time we tried using this system. Now our clinicals can upload the files directly so we don't need it other than for HR and Finance and archival purposes.

No reason this has to be in 24 bit color.

[ckelly78z]

Originally Posted by Noah930

OK, I'm sitting here at IKEA (returned/exchanged something for the missus), and now watching a guy try to load 4 flats (each about 3'x3') of glass bottles into the back of his Ford Mustang. Why buy 4 flats of these things when you can only fit one in easily?

Reminds me of the guy I saw a few years back, that had just left the Menard's home improvement parking lot with his mid 80s D-100 1/2 ton pickup. Evidently he only wanted to make one trip home, rather than the 2 or 3 needed. In his 8' long pickup truck bed, he had 50# Quikrete bags packed in like sardines higher than the bedrails. I would venture a guess that is was nearly 3000#.....needless to say, he was just getting out of his truck on the side of the road to inspect what looked like a flat tire on one side, and some broken springs on the other side. Sucked to be him !

[flipper35]

Sounds like he may not have had the intelligence to know it sucks to be him.

Richard, great program on a Mac but no batch processing for the Windows version.

[RKDinOKC]

Hmmm, Sorry.