[Ham-Computers] RE: Scanning Text And Images Mixed

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Duane,

OK.  Then follow Aaron's most resent suggestions, but try to get someone to 
segregate the color ones from the B&W ones for you and use color scan only on 
the ones that need it.  Big difference in resultant file size.  

In my tech manual operations, I scan everything B&W and then go back and scan 
pages with photographs with gray scale.  I then cut and paste the photographs 
into the appropriate text pages, which results in significant file size 
savings without degrading the photo quality (doing it all gray scale seriously 
degrades the text quality).  If final file size is important in what you are 
doing, similar results should be obtained from running OCR software against the 
mixed text and photo pages, at the expense of proof-hearing and correcting the 
text in the output file.

In a message dated 8/11/2005 8:17:20 PM Central Daylight Time, 
dfischer at usol.com writes: 
> No drawings.    
>     
> Mainly older magazines and newspaper articles from 1969 back with some 
> photos.    
>     
> Some color on large promotional 5X7 cards, both text and photos.    
>     
> I guess I have sort of a dog from every county, heh?    
>     
> The majority will be the newspaper and magazine types, however.    
>   

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