Scanning (was Re: recent acquisitions for the House of VAX

From: Bruce Ray <bkr_at_WildHareComputers.com>
Date: Tue Sep 11 00:21:01 2001

Jim

...so what tools do you find adequate/appropriate for scanning manuals,
"cleaning" them up, and converting to Adobe .pdf format... and on what
platform(s)..

Bruce

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Tuck" <technos_at_nerdland.org>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 9:05 PM
Subject: RE: Scanning (was Re: recent acquisitions for the House of VAX


> I work in digital imaging for part of my living, and do work for a
> number of
> archival projects as well.
>
> 600dpi_at_1bpp is insane. 300dpi is usually fine, if there is a prob
> increase the
> image depth.
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Monday, September 10, 2001 5:17 PM, Chuck McManis
> [SMTP:cmcmanis_at_netapp.com] wrote:
> >
> >
> > This topic has gone over the list a few times, from experience, the
> > "best"
> > scans are 600 DPI black and white compressed into PDF files. This
> > achieves
> > exactly what is needed, get the data without a lot of excess. The
> > KA655 TM
> > that is on the DFWCUG site appears from the PDF to be 100 DPI/8 bit
> > (note
> > that's 800 bits per inch net and the result is harder to read) I'll
> > add
> > scanning this manual to my list. They don't appear to have come up
> > with a
> > 'standard' for their scans. That would help too.
> >
> > --Chuck
> >
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