[Ham-Computers] Re How Do You Scan?

jeff jeffv at op.net
Tue May 3 15:48:38 EDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 14:39, Duane B. Fischer, W8DBF wrote:
> I have been told several different ways of scanning a document that contains
> color photos that form the top and bottom borders with text between them. 		

You're stuck scanning it all in as a graphic or text with graphics,
depending on your software settings.



> I am scanning it at the default resolution of 150 PI, in color, to an image
> file. This results in a .bmp file. I then save it as a .jpg with 10%
> compression.  		

Can you save to a different format initially, instead of .bmp? 
That might help a bit.  .tif, .pcx and .gif are ok.


Good luck.

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