Andy,
Try an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program. Bing or Google 'Free OCR". There are several online services. Basically it can read a 'picture' of text and convert it to editible characters for MS Word type pgms.
Andy,
Try an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program. Bing or Google 'Free OCR". There are several online services. Basically it can read a 'picture' of text and convert it to editible characters for MS Word type pgms.
~Fred
Hi Fred C and gwpriester,
Under normal circunstances I would try using OCR as you suggested (never used before but heard of it), but I am scanning some old documents and the original old "defects" on the document (background and text) are suppose to show up on the final print. I need to keep the final print as original as possible to the original document, the only difference just a bit more readable. Also I will need to reduce the size of the originbal documets to fit in my Photoshop layout.
I think I will try to scan as a TIFF at 300 dpi as gwpriester suggested and see how it goes.
Let me know if you have any other suggestion now that you have a bit more information about my project.
Thanks very much Fred C and gwpriester!
Andy
For anybody who goes the OCR (optical character recognition) be aware that unless you are using a very excellent (and expensive) OCR product, you will have to do some scrupulous editing to make sure there are no typos or misspelled words.
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JPEG and GIF both are good.
Andy, in case you're tempted - don't use jpeg for this project, it introduces artifacts and GIF isn't suited either.
TIFF is great and PNG.
If you are going to manipulate the images to try and improve clarity, etc, you may wish to scan at a higher resolution than 300DPI, then manipulate that then scale back down to 300DPI - really depends on whether you intend to manipulate the images or not.
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