[sebhc] SCANS

[Patrick Rigney]

Carrol, for most of the ones I uploaded, they were scanned on an HP
OfficeJet d145 with a duplexing document feeder.  I use Adobe Acrobat's
"import" facility to scan directly to Acrobat.  For the rare occasions that
I bother to OCR, I use OmniPage.

I don't usually scan the documents in their original form.  I make a
single-sided copy, making any contrast adjustments I feel necessary for a
good quality result.  For small documents I do that on my office copier; for
large document, I go to Kinkos where they have fast machines with good
high-capacity document feeders.  If the document is fragile, I'll happily
spend hours copying it page by page.  I then put the original document back
together (if disassembled) and store it away.  The single-sided copy is what
gets scanned, and then I put THAT away as well, using the PDF to produce
whatever further paper copies I need from there.  I keep working prints of
most of the documents I have in binders for each machine, printed 2-up and
double-sided (four document pages per printed page) with lots of Post-It
markers and reminders. :-)

I just saw Jack's message as well.  He and I have almost identical
procedures, except that I typically use 300dpi one-bit mode for documents
that are mostly text, or even 200dpi for documents that are very large, and
I use Acrobat 5 instead of 6.  My objective is not to make the PDF an
archival quality document, but rather to make it a readable working
document, and either resolution produces what I feel is an acceptable result
for this purpose.  For some documents I'll use 8-bit grayscale, but only for
schematics with fine print.  For archiving, I rely on careful handling of
the original document and its new single-sided copy.

--Patrick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sebhc at sebhc.org [mailto:sebhc at sebhc.org] On Behalf Of 
> Carroll Waddell
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 4:25 PM
> To: sebhc at staunch89er.com
> Subject: [sebhc] SCANS
> 
> 
> I see some of you have been scanning manuls, etc to upload. What 
> software are you using to scan them? I have some info and a 
> scanner. Carroll
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