Inventory for handling scanned documents (was: Better indexing on bitsavers)

J. David Bryan wrote: This is the Nth time I've seen the scanner software blamed (and rightly so). A long time ago I standardized on Microtek scanners because their software (in Advanced mode) is some of the best scanning software I've ever used. It won't deskew, but it does practically everything else (descreening, multiple output targets from different regions/depths of the same source item, white/gray/black point balance, etc.). The scanners are very reasonable ($130 for a decent one, $300 if you want one with embedded ICE technology). One thing I hadn't seen mentioned so far is the importance of doing as much correction as possible within the scanner software BEFORE it gets to the pc/mac. This is because most scanners are 36-/48-bit internally and can perform much finer adjustments in that colorspace before it gets converted to 24-bit while being sent to the computer. -- Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/ Want to help an ambitious games project? http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/