Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:15:30 +0000
From: Philip Pemberton <classiccmp at philpem.me.uk>
Subject: Manual scanning: TIFF-to-PDF software with greyscale support?
To: cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Message-ID: <4B264882.4010901 at philpem.me.uk>
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Hi guys,
I'm after a program that can convert TIFF files into PDFs. I've seen
Eric Smith's "Tumble" app, which works great... but only for B&W
TIFFs.
While I can use Imagemagick to convert the images to B&W, that defeats
the point: there are photos on the scanned pages, and I'd rather like to
keep them as photos, not black splodges.
Also, has anyone come up with a "best practice guide" for manual
scanning? At the moment I'm scanning like this:
B&W text only: 600dpi, black and white, threshold=50%.
Text + photos: 600dpi, greyscale, then despeckle and scale down to
300dpi.
Obviously if there are better ways (in terms of quality and/or speed)
I'd like to know before I scan a ton of testgear manuals...
Also, does anyone know of an app that can take the PDF file, OCR it and
then insert the text as a background layer while leaving the image
alone? I'm pretty sure Acrobat can do this, but like most Adobe
software, the price tag is somewhat... eye-watering. "If you have to ask
how much it costs, you can't afford it."
Thanks,
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/
I expect the US$50 Express version will do what u want, I have been a very
happy user of the PRO version for many years.
Tom