Inventory for handling scanned documents (was: Better indexing on bitsavers)

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Fri, 2005-05-20 17:08:34 +0000, Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> I can't say I've found many bad TIFF viewers for single images though
> (on any platform); it's only when multiple images are put into the same
> file that a lot of tools start falling over.

We've now named quite a lot of applications and concepts about how to
handle scanned documents. I'd like to get the big picture:

- How do you scan a paper document? Page by page? Two pages at once
  (with a sufficient large scanner)? Do you use a script or something
  like that? ...or are there well-working applications out there that
  aid in scanning some 100 pages? Do you directly scan b/w, or first use
  grayscale/colour and then degrade that to b/w?

- How do you work on the scanned images: Do you cut off the white rim as
  much as possible? How do you deal with images that are a tad rotated?
  Accept that? Re-scan to hopefully get a better image? Revert rotation
  in software? How do you deal with single black dots in white areas or
  the other way around?

- What digital format do you like to get when it's all finished? Plain
  PDF? PDF with some bookmarks? PDF with all headings as bookmarks? A
  new PDF-hyperref based index? Multiple TIFF/PNG/whatever images?
  Something like a web-based slide-show? ...or multiple formats
  (web-based for viewing, PDF for printing, ...)?

- What do you currently use as your software:

	Operating system:

	PDF viewer:

	TIFF viewer:

	Browser/other viewers you'd love to use:

MfG, JBG

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