Minimum needed for better scanning quality?

[Pieter12]

A Google search indicates a few options, such as PTGui and Hugin and others. I'll let those like @koraks who work more in Linux give you more informed responses.

Since you have no intention of printing, I am unsure why you would need a high resolution file.

 

[runswithsizzers]

Would you know of any software for stitching? This may be difficult for me because I am on Linux

Sorry, but I've been using Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop on a Mac for so long, I haven't really kept up with what other editing software companies are doing.

I have Rawtherapee and Gimp and there doesn't appear to be any function for stitching images.

It may be called something else besides "stitching." Adobe calls it "Photo Merge" for which there are two options: "HDR" and "Panorama" -- Panorama is the right one for stitching.

 

[What About Bob]

A Google search indicates a few options, such as PTGui and Hugin and others. I'll let those like @koraks who work more in Linux give you more informed responses.

In my search I saw HDRmerge and Luminance HDR were recommended at the Rawtherapee board. There is an Appimage version available of HDRmerge. There is also a package in the software sources. I will check out the other two you mentioned. Thanks Matt

 

[runswithsizzers]

In my search I saw HDRmerge and Luminance HDR were recommended at the Rawtherapee board. There is an Appimage version available of HDRmerge. There is also a package in the software sources. I will check out the other two you mentioned.

I don't think anything described as "HDR" is what you want. HDR merge is for High Dynamic Range, which is combining two or more images which are identical in composition, but different exposures.

 

[What About Bob]

I don't think anything described as "HDR" is what you want. HDR merge is for High Dynamic Range, which is combining two or more images which are identical in composition, but different exposures.

Stacking of images and not joining basically? Like Registax.

 

[koraks]

Sorry, I've only very rarely bothered to merge anything together and I just used something like Photoshop (past) or GIMP (more recently) for it.

Since you have no intention of printing, I am unsure why you would need a high resolution file.

There's at least some truth to this. I'd perhaps put it in a slightly more nuanced way and contend that a single dSLR capture will be sufficient for reasonably big prints, so I'd not bother with any stitching.