Help: scanning old computer manuals

From: Jason Willgruber <roblwill_at_usaor.net>
Date: Sun Feb 7 17:28:03 1999

Try setting the scanner on either grayscale or monochrome, 150-200dpi. This
is what I use when scanning any tyoe of documnentation. I have an Artec
4800dpi scanner.

-Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay West <jlwest_at_tseinc.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 12:14 PM
Subject: Help: scanning old computer manuals


>Ok, I've finally gotten around to attempting to scan a lot of the classic
>computer documentation that I have. However, I have run into a problem
>perhaps some here could shed some light on...
>
>Whenever I scan a page from a manual, the scanned image on the screen looks
>horrible. However, when I print it out it is absolutely perfect. Yes, I've
>tried zooming in on the image on screen, it is unreadable still. One more
>twist is that if I send the image to my OCR software, it turns it into text
>with almost perfect accuracy. My scan settings are Line Art at 300dpi.
>
>My scanner is legal size, a scanport 2400 and the application software is
>Uload Photoimpact SE. My printer is an HP deskjet 820cse, and the video
card
>in my system is a Diamond speedstar A50 w/8mb ram. Since the scanned
>document looks bad even when still in the scanmodule driver (before getting
>passed to the graphics application), I don't think photoimpact has anything
>to do with it.
>
>I wanted to put some of the scanned documents up on the web, but since they
>look horrible on screen I'm not sure how to proceed. Of course, they can be
>downloaded and printed and look great, but... I have downloaded old dec
>documentation that looked fine onscreen and printed fine too.
>
>Any suggestions? What am I doing wrong?
>
>Jay West
>
>
Received on Sun Feb 07 1999 - 17:28:03 GMT