Fastest way to scan and create a new deck. Savage worlds Adventure Cards

I am looking to scan in my decks of adventure cards for Savage Worlds and the custom deck that comes with Rippers. How would you guys do that? What’s the most efficient? I got my custom bennies and that was cool :)

The easiest way would be to take the PDF and either extract the images from that, or slice it up with a program like Gimp. You'll still need to build the deck the way you normally would, but...that's what I've found to be the most efficient.

Thanks.  Ill take a look.  I wish we could share the work we’ve put into out setups. Gimp you say? Kk I’ll look that up.

Finderski said: The easiest way would be to take the PDF and either extract the images from that, or slice it up with a program like Gimp. You'll still need to build the deck the way you normally would, but...that's what I've found to be the most efficient. Gimp looks like it's a photo editor like photoshop? Does it have a feature that would do cards faster?

Anything that lets your slice images into individual cards is fine. Gimp is just a Free alternative to something like Photoshop. 

I tried with a flatbed scanner and it was a nightmare. It was cropping or misorienting each card. To do a 54 card deck will take an eternity.... 

Setting up the card-deck in Roll20, that alone will be a fair amount of work. (A lot of clicks). I was hoping The Aaron's reply would have some kind of spreadsheet/database/XML to card-deck, import API script method or ideas. (?) Unfortunately the card-decks in Roll20 feature has not seen upgrades/development recently. There are threads on the Suggestion Forum to make card decks much more useful and configurable. Check those out and +1 if you can. Collecting all the card graphics and making those consistent size / scale / orientation / alignment / coloring, is a whole different challenge, and not really a Roll20 thing in itself. Yes GIMP or Photoshop. Yes scanner at home. Yes it would take a long time. There are business card scanners, drum-scanners, other types too. Having worked in graphic design. My advice for the card-graphics challenge, one or more of the following tips.  (0) If the game is sold as a card-deck Add-On in Roll20 Marketplace, just buy it there and save yourself many hours of work. (1) Try to buy the game as a PDF or digital, maybe the cards are already separate JPEG/PNG in that product. Or maybe there is PDF pages with 6 cards per page. Starting with such a file would be much-much-easier to slice in Photoshop, than scanning individual physical cards would be. (2) Same as above but if you can get paper "sheet" (book pages) of perforated but un-torn cards, scanning full 8x11 pages would be easier than 54 small cards. (3) Become very tolerant of graphics glitches and just go for it anyway. If you have to scan 54 cards (both sides??) save yourself the headache and don't worry if a card is slightly diagonal (although, this is easy to fix in Photoshop, the more tasks you make x54 can be a lot of added clicks unless you know how to automate Actions and Scripts in Photoshop or GIMP). (4) Co-op with a friend of yours online who already scanned / collected the cards and can share them with you, a fellow owner of the game, on a private method, for your personal use, and do so in a way that would be a Fair Use of the game's content. (5) Go to Kinko's, FedEx Office, Office Depot copier counter, and hire them to do your scanning to digital. Worth-it as a time saver. They will ask you to answer to them that it is not a copyright violation and is for your own fair use. (6) Recreate the deck from blank-white pages (files) in Photoshop. Forget about the original art and the physical scanning, just photoshop draw-or-paste-or-doodle your own art, and put the card text that is needed for each.

There are some things the API can help with, but the vast majority of the work is gong to be getting the source images in a usable state. 

Thanks for the help all. KK I skipped some steps and found a PDF of the cards My other option was gonna be buying a business card scanner. I’m having trouble cutting and pasting from the PDF. It hit copy and nothing is pasted when I hit paste. I wish there were ways to just buy these resources for Roll 20.

Hey Colin, take a look at ImageMagick, it can handle pdf, bitmap images and pretty much anything you throw at it. Just do a search on imagemagick slicing and you should get something you can easily modify to get working with the PDF you've downloaded.

Zoom the PDF to a size you like. Learn how to do Screenshot (sometimes called Print Screen or umm Snipping Tool or other names). Screenshot each card at the same size, they will all save into the same folder or desktop. Go to that folder, rename each card with practical naming in your OS, this will save u time later because you can see that filename after you have uploaded it in some places.