Re: Scanning magazine articles

Retyping the text might be arduous, there's also the option of OCR scanning
and then pasting the separately-scanned photos into the webpage. Unless you
don't want the text to be copied or searched, you will have much
faster-loading pages this way, and text can have links, etc., and anybody
can print the webpage if they want.

Maggie.


-----Original Message-----
From: Karin Christensen <karinc(at)linkline.com>
To: hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
Date: July 19, 2001 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: Scanning magazine articles


:It is pretty hard to make small printed text readable after scanning.
About
:the best you can do is scan at a high resolution (at least 300 dpi) then,
if
:you want to put it on the web, reduce the resolution in Photoshop down to
:150 or 72.  Ideally, you would want to retype the text and just use the
:photos then make it a PDF.
:Karin
:
:> I've got magazine articles that contain both text and photos.  I'm using
:> a Visioneer Paperport 6000 and Photoshop 5.5.  Scanning using the
Descreen
:> option goes a long way toward making the text readable, but I've got
:> to think it could be better.  Any suggestions?
:>
:> Thanks,
:> Debbie O'Meara
:
:

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