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

[Jim Leonard]

J. David Bryan wrote:
> using the descreening feature of the (horrible) HP imaging software that 

This is the Nth time I've seen the scanner software blamed (and rightly so).  A 
long time ago I standardized on Microtek scanners because their software (in 
Advanced mode) is some of the best scanning software I've ever used.  It won't 
deskew, but it does practically everything else (descreening, multiple output 
targets from different regions/depths of the same source item, white/gray/black 
point balance, etc.).  The scanners are very reasonable ($130 for a decent one, 
$300 if you want one with embedded ICE technology).

One thing I hadn't seen mentioned so far is the importance of doing as much 
correction as possible within the scanner software BEFORE it gets to the 
pc/mac.  This is because most scanners are 36-/48-bit internally and can 
perform much finer adjustments in that colorspace before it gets converted to 
24-bit while being sent to the computer.
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