> From: Paul Koning > If you can, avoid black/white scans. The reason is that scanners are > often noisy in that mode ... Copiers used in scan mode are particularly > likely to do this. Such documents are also surprisingly hard to read, > look messy when printed, and utterly fail OCR.
I was talking about scanning prints (which is how this originally came up, someone said 300 dpi doesn't catch the very fine printing one can find on them - which is true, I've had issues in this regard too). I'm using a professional-grade A3-size scanner (found on eBay for the princely sum of $100 - it's an older model, with a SCSI interface) - for scanning fold-out prints, the typical A4/8-1/2x11 scanner won't eat them whole. And of course OCR is a non-concept for prints. For manuals (text), on the other hand, 300 dpi is of course fine. Noel