Scanning

[Willem van der Walt]

Hi,
I also read that 300 dpi is best as well as scanning in black and white as 
opposed to scanning in color.
HTH, Willem


On Fri, 6 Nov 2015, Tony Baechler wrote:

> According to Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders (pgdp.net if you're 
> interested), they actually recommend not scanning at 600 DPI.  They 
> recommend 300 DPI for most books and 400 DPI in rare cases.  I can confirm 
> this to be the case in my experience.  When I scan at the highest 
> resolution, I actually get worse text results.  Not only does 300 DPI scan 
> faster, but seems to do a better job.  Of course I don't know about 
> non-English text.  Maybe 400 DPI works better for other languages.
>
> On 11/5/2015 7:30 AM, John G Heim wrote:
>> I did a lot of experimentation while scanning in the D&D manual. I found
>> that I got best text recognition when I scanned in the page as line art. My
>> scanner has a top resolution of 600 dots per inch. I don't know if that's
>> good or bad. It's is a really ancient scanner. Someone just gave it to me
>> because they were upgrading to Windows XP and it didn't have drivers. When
>> would that have been, 2001? But it still works great in linux.
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