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[LDS] genealogical interest--old photos

richhart
Wed, 04 Oct 2000 21:33:28 -0700

true true true
I luv my scanner --use it all the time for scanning
photos, text, making copies etc.
But I cannot put a tombstone on the scanner
I cannot walk into someones home and set
up a computer, scanner or printer
so I use the digital camera.
Both have specific uses..  in specific areas.
have not been able to  perfect the act of a
digital camera photo of a
text document so that it is readable..
Half a page perhaps but not a full
page.. text is blurry..
Perhaps an up grade eh??
Thanks for your input..
glory bee

Everett MARSHALL wrote:

> With my C$149.95 IBM Ideascan;
> I found that a scan of the page in a diary came out far better if the setting was
> for full colour. i.e. 300
>
> For text as in a newspaper with columns etc. the OCR optical character recognition
> software provided with the cheapest scanners is something you can edit to
> perfection in Adobe or any software that imports a pdf file .
>
> I haven't saved up enough washers to buy a digital camera.  [Come to think of it -
> you do not need to have a scanner if you have a digital camera.  But it does not
> have OCR for text]
>
> everett
>
> [snip]
>
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