9 Mar
1999
9 Mar
'99
6:27 p.m.
At 12:32 PM 3/9/99 -0500, you wrote:
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Arfon Gryffydd wrote:
I scanned a bunch of articles recently and found that the appearance
didn't degrade until I went below ~125 DPI. I scanned and posted
everything at 150 DPI, then used PhotoShop to save the images at a fixed
600 to 800 pixel width (keeping the height/width ratio). Scannning at 150
DPI saved a bunch of disk space and time. FWIW I was scanning black text
on a white background, you may have to adjust the settings for different
font size, color, etc.
I tried Omni-Carea OCR but it was totally useless!!!
Joe
Okay,
I have some old computer manuals and I just bought a scanner...... Anyone
care to suggest the best way to convert these manuals to electronic form
and not take up HUGE amounts of memory?
I'd like to second this notion. Could those on this list, who are
scanning for posterity, share their methods?
What platform(s), what hardware(s), what software(s). Any intermediary
format(s), final output format(s). Whatever it takes.
I am especially puzzled by dpi. Seems everybody in the world is scanning
at 600 or over. I am contemplating using a Hewlett Packard at 300 and
from some test scans, including pictures, I am hard pressed to tell the
difference between 2 and 3 hundred. Extremely high numbers coupled with
millions of colors (where applicable) seem to me to be just a waste of
storage space.