Scanning docs for bitsavers

[Mike Loewen]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2019, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:

>    > From: Jay Jaeger
>
>    > CCITT Group 4 lossless compression
>
> That's very good indeed. I scan text pages in B+W at slightly less resolution
> (engineering prints I do higher, they need it), but compressed they turn out
> to be ~50KB per page, or less - for long documents (e.g. the DOS-11 System
> Programmer's Manual), that produces a reasonably-sized file.
>
>    > The software I have been using i[s] Irfanview.
>
> That's what I use too; it has tons of useful features, including being able
> to drive my single-sided page-feed scanner and being able to number the
> even-sided pages correctly. The one I use for this is the 'batch mode'; I can
> do the entire document into CCITT 4 in one operation.

    For scanning software, I highly recommend VueScan:

https://www.hamrick.com/

    There are Linux, Windows and Mac versions, and it supports thousands of 
scanner models, including some very old ones. VueScan can also do CCITT G4 
compression, and directly create PDF files. If you but the pro version, 
updates are free. I've been using it for years.


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