>Rodger Whitlock wrote:
>I've been trying to get the scan of the SFxN manual done at work
>during the lunch hour and am having some problems. The scanner is an
>HP Scanjet II, and the software is very coy about what it is actually
>doing in terms of resolution, color depth, and sharpening. It has a
>rather microsoftish paternalism to it of holding your hand and
>concealing its workings behind useless everyday language.
>
>One trial scan of a page produced an image where the fine print
>couldn't be read. Another trial with different settings produced a
>lovely, highly readable image -- at about 2 megs as a raw bitmap!
>Yet another setting gave a 10 meg bitmap!
>
>Can some PDMLer please bail me out with practical advice?
Hi Rodger,
I scanned a manual for Greg Erker once (is he still on this list?) and the
easiest way to save on space was to run the text through OCR on the
scanner, and just have scans of the manuals images saved a gifs or jpegs
linked to a text file of the manual:
http://www.angelfire.lycos.com/ca/erker/supermanual.html . The storage
savings are tremendous.
Good luck,
Dan Scott
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