Help: scanning old computer manuals

From: Noel Fields <nfields_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: Sun Feb 7 15:53:17 1999

Its probably cuz your scanning as line art. I found the same problem using that
setting, and if I put it back to a "normal" scanning setup, it worked MUCH
better.

    Noel

Jay West wrote:

> 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 - 15:53:17 GMT