# Q for experienced PaperPort users re: combining images

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-for-experienced-paperport-users-re-combining-images/232369>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 3, 2004, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-for-experienced-paperport-users-re-combining-images/232369 "2004-03-03T19:31:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-for-experienced-paperport-users-re-combining-images/232369/1 "2004-03-03T19:31:12Z")

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I’m on my second Visioneer scanner, and neither version of the PaperPort software bundled with them has explained how to do this: I want to join two images into one. There is an option to make two images appear on one page, but that’s not what I’m after. I want to append one directly to the other. For example, I want to scan an album cover. Now, the bed of the scanner is barely 9 inches wide, so obviously I can’t scan a big 12"x12" image all at once. I want to be able to scan half an album cover, then the other half, then join the two halves into one image.

I’m certain there must be a way to do it, since one of the sample images on the PaperPort desktop is a scanned “newspaper article” that is easily twice as long as anything that would actually fit on the bed of a Visioneer scanner.

Any help greatly appreciated.

I can’t believe I made it through that entire post and didn’t mention _24_ once.

D’oh!

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-for-experienced-paperport-users-re-combining-images/232369/2 "2004-03-11T14:16:04Z")

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Anybody?

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**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2004, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-for-experienced-paperport-users-re-combining-images/232369/3 "2004-03-11T14:22:10Z")

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I don’t know how to do it, but I always assumed that that newspaper article was an example of how you could scan an article using the sheetfed scanner. I’ve done this many times and even if the cut-out is 16" long, the image is only the size of a regular sheet of paper.