10 Sep
2001
10 Sep
'01
5:21 p.m.
Jim
...so what tools do you find adequate/appropriate for scanning manuals,
"cleaning" them up, and converting to Adobe .pdf format... and on what
platform(s)..
Bruce
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Tuck" <technos(a)nerdland.org>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 9:05 PM
Subject: RE: Scanning (was Re: recent acquisitions for the House of VAX
I work in digital imaging for part of my living, and
do work for a
number of
archival projects as well.
600dpi@1bpp is insane. 300dpi is usually fine, if there is a prob
increase the
image depth.
Jim
On Monday, September 10, 2001 5:17 PM, Chuck McManis
[SMTP:cmcmanis@netapp.com] wrote:
>
>
> This topic has gone over the list a few times, from experience, the
> "best"
> scans are 600 DPI black and white compressed into PDF files. This
> achieves
> exactly what is needed, get the data without a lot of excess. The
> KA655 TM
> that is on the DFWCUG site appears from the PDF to be 100 DPI/8 bit
> (note
> that's 800 bits per inch net and the result is harder to read) I'll
> add
> scanning this manual to my list. They don't appear to have come up
> with a
> 'standard' for their scans. That would help too.
>
> --Chuck
>