Re: [CODE4LIB] JPEG question

2016-05-25 Thread Chris Moschini
DPI is suspicious. Guessing both exports treated the input as 150dpi on the way in regardless of real DPI. Check the resolutions on the >1500dpi images - to convert for example 1500dpi to 150dpi without losing data you need to go up 10x in pixels, so for example 200 pixels to 2000. If it didn't

Re: [CODE4LIB] JPEG question

2016-05-25 Thread Bernadette Houghton
sage- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Kyle Banerjee Sent: Thursday, 26 May 2016 9:20 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] JPEG question Is that 1524 dpi for Batch A a misprint? If not, that's very likely to be your problem -- I doubt th

Re: [CODE4LIB] JPEG question

2016-05-25 Thread Kyle Banerjee
Is that 1524 dpi for Batch A a misprint? If not, that's very likely to be your problem -- I doubt that's what the vendor really scanned at. If you change the dpi values and try to reload, my guess is you'll get very different results. kyle On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Bernadette Houghton <

[CODE4LIB] JPEG question

2016-05-25 Thread Bernadette Houghton
We have had some test scans made of a pressed flower album, and are mightily puzzled by the difference in quality when we process the resulting JPGs through BookReader. There are 2 batches, each taken by different 3rd parties. For Batch A, the original JPGs are ~3-4MB each, 1524 dpi, 24 bit