At 12:51 PM 02/20/10, you wrote:
>Thanks to those whom commented. I like the idea of being able to have
>someone else spend time on scanning manuals instead of me for a little
>money.
Some of the former Kinkos stores (now "Fedex Office") have the wide
scanners, some don't.
Kinkos got started in th
My HP PSC2410 Photosmart all-in-one Printer/Fax/Scanner/Copier came with
software that will scan something into many formats, including PDF
files. The only thing I find is that the size of the PDF file is rather
large.
73, Joe, K1ike
Benjamin L. Naber wrote:
> Thanks to those whom commented.
Thanks to those whom commented. I like the idea of being able to have
someone else spend time on scanning manuals instead of me for a little
money. However, it's also good to know how to do it myself when I have
only one or two items as a time.
One of these days I hope to see a manual library on a
I was surprised how well the scan stitch worked, it even has fine skew controls.
I'm more interested in an OCR program that will spit out regenerated
text with the correct font and in the right places for a PDF.
I use a Fujitsu flatbed scanner at work that also has an automatic document
feeder that can handle the large foldouts in a single pass. I scan directly
to PDF, no intermediate graphics files.
George, KA3HSW / WQGJ413
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Benjamin,
There is no need to mosaic anything. The key is to use a commercial scanner
that has a throat of at least 48", so that long foldout sheets can be
scanned in one pass directly into PDF. Such machines are very expensive,
and would normally be found only at a commercial graphics house. I
ARCsoft Scan and Stitch is what I used.
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Robert Pease wrote:
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