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Book scanning.
Any advice on bookscanning?
Some while back, I had said I'd scan 5 books for the ftp. Then, naturally, the digital camera was stolen when set down for barely a second. Now
that I've got a new one, and begun scanning, I've realized this isn't quite as simple as I'd surmised.
Any of you have any tips on easing and speeding up the process?
As it is, to get pictures of good quality, I have to take them in a high resolution mode, which makes each pic half a meg or so apiece. Then I have
to go through and flip the pages so that they're not sideways, and then save them all as a smaller file before converting into a pdf. And then
go back and redo some pictures that invariably don't capture perfectly, and insert them in at the proper points. Only to find that they've
been put in at the wrong place and finding yet more missing pages. Yeesh.
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Unless you have a much better digicam than I think you do, suspend your book scanning project for now and wait until you can get a flatbed scanner.
You don't need a fancy scanner. It should be able to capture 300 (or, better, 600) DPI in 8-bit grayscale or 1-bit lineart. Make sure you look at
the *optical* resolution of the scanner, BTW, and ignore interpolated resolution. You should be able to pick up a used scanner that does this for US
$20, or $40 for a new one.
Scan at the highest resolution you can afford (in terms of time, disk space, and scanner hardware). If there's very few pages with photographs or
color, you can scan the whole book in 1-bit "lineart" or "bitonal" mode. If more than a few pages have photographs or non-lineart
illustrations, scan in grayscale and later convert the pages without images into bitonal images (for better PDF compression). Clean up messy edges,
blotches, and badly skewed images in Photoshop or another image editor. Run the cleaned-up images through Abbyy FineReader to produce a PDF with OCR
text beneath the page images. Run the PDF through Acrobat 6 or the Silx compressor to convert bitonal images to JBIG2 compression.
Especially if you end up having a lot of grayscale or color pages (illustrations and whatnot), you might want to consider using DjVu instead of PDF,
since it compresses better all-around and does an especially good job of handling pages containing a mixture of text/lineart and continuous-tone
images.
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I agree. The best format, in terms of required space, to store monochrome scanned page images in is PCX, which good graphics viewers and editing
programs can use, as either 1-bit line-art or 8-bit grayscale (the latter can use 256 shades of gray). 300 dpi resolution is sufficient for larger
type sizes, and 600 dpi or more is advisable where there is particularly small type or fine detail.
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| Quote: | | Run the cleaned-up images through Abbyy FineReader to produce a PDF with OCR text beneath the page images. |
Are you saying Abbyy is better than omnipage? The latter has never worked well for me. Was going to download finereader but wanted
to hear good news about it first. Is it less of a hassle than omnipage? I have several nice books I'm willing to contribute - "Lob, Lorenz
(1898) - Electrolysis and Electrosynthesis of Organic Compounds" to name one.
But it all depends on finding a decent OCR app.
Dave
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I have never used omnipage, but I would say that FineReader is good. It is easy to use. If you have already scanned and cleaned up your images, use a
batch image converter like that in irfanview to convert them to a format FineReader can read (if they are not already in such a format). Uncompressed
TIFF is what I use.
You "open and recognize" the directory full of images. Wait for recognition to finish... then export all pages in PDF format, with
recognized text below page images and page images downsampled to 300 DPI. Use Silx or Acrobat 6 to apply JBIG2 compression before distributing the
PDF.
While you're scanning, make sure you your page images are named something like page0001.tiff, page0002.tiff, etc. (always writing any leading
zeroes out) so that everything will be in the right order when you load the directory full of images into FineReader. If you omit the leading zeroes
you will see orderings like
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18.tif
19.tif
1.tif
20.tif
21.tif
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MEPHISTO !!
Ask mephisto, he definitivly makes the very best pdfs from books - no doubt. He is the only one who has managed to get the pages numeration right! I
LOVE him!
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How would you handle graphics in books, and their positioning among lines of text? Are there other image formats able to be used with Abbyy Finereader
besides TIF, e.g. JPG for color and grayscale?
Also, you say that Abbyy Finereader can "export all pages in PDF format" after OCR. Is each page an individual PDF file, and if so, how can
they be combined into a single PDF file? What about the page breaks and text formats and fonts - how are they preserved in the OCR process?
John W.
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The OCR solely makes the book fulltext-searchable, there is the plain text seperately stored for this. The book as you see and read it are pictures
stored in some compressed picture format - best is JBIG5 afaik. Needs the SILX-compressor though, but I am not the specialist.
RHADON!!!!
MEPHISTO!!!!!
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Organikum: Nice to hear, you like my ebooks! Although I heard something from you,
that sounds like: "Die Ammoniak-Gas Synthese ist in der Form MIST".
JohnWW: Pages which just contain text should be scanned with a resolution of 600 dpi (greyscale). Finereader can convert these
greyscale scans very good to black/white. This is necessary, because silx can just compress b/w PDFs (not greyscale!). Silx compressed for example one
of my ebooks with 2149 pages to a size of 32,5 MB. You see, silx is the most effecitve compressor, but can only handle b/w.
If the page contains text and a grey picture Finereader can't convert it proper to b/w. You can to this by yourself with Corel Photo-Paint (more
pages => batch process). You get for example with Floyd Steinberg a b/w-picture, which looks like a greyscale picture.
The alternative is to hold the greyscale (or colour). Personally I convert everything to b/w, because my books contain only text an illustrations. For
non-black/white ebooks I am the wrong to ask.
The size of the pages play an even more important role! Use Corel Photo-Paint (batch-process) to cut off the dark edges of the pages.
In this way to pages will be also constant in height and width. An own script for a batch-process can be easily made with Corel Photo-Paint by
recording a manual cropping of one page. For more professional PDFs I recommend the PitStop-plugin for Adobe Acrobat Professional (I'll up it
soon to the ftp).
Note: Next month the following books will be available: "Warren, S. - Organische Retrosynthese.pdf" and "Christine L. Willis,
Martin Willis - Syntheseplanung in der Organischen Chemie.pdf"
[Edited on 26-8-2004 by Mephisto]
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Just wanted to say I downloaded finereader. Very impressive! Easy to use compared to omnipage (it sux), and a damn lot more accurate.
Dave
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Enfocus Pitstop Professional
You can find the PitStop plugin for Adobe Acrobat Professional now on the ftp (/upload/PDF-Tool Enfocus Pitstop Professional - by Mephisto.rar).
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AAAARRRRGGGHHH!!!!
Damn geekspeak.
I've been downloading REAMS of stuff off of the ftp site, and starting to feel a little guilty about my lack of reciprocity.
I see no reason why I shouldn't be scanning some of the neat books I check out at the library, and usually only get a chance to skim through
before I have to bring them back.
It has occurred to me, that I could probably scan books with one hand, at the same time I am studying my subjects.
For instance, in calculus, I read the same paragraphs as many as a dozen times before the light comes on (in my head).
Why couldn't I take a moment every several seconds to turn to the next page of a book that was sitting on the scanner and press a button?
Slowly but surely the book would get scanned in right?
However, the "tips" that were placed earlier in this thread lost me pretty quick and left me needing a compu-dictionary. So I am going to
document my efforts in case there is anyone else out there as thick as I am. This is my plan.
Buy a scanner
Learn to use scanner to get readable text onto screen
figure out how to take the readable text scans and make them into searchable PDF's like the all the cool kids are doing.
Share the PDF's with anyone who'll have them.
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In order to make a PDF you have to have a full version of acrobat, which I have if you need help getting. My point is that there are a lot of acrobat
reader programs out there that allow you to read pdf files but not create your own. Just something to keep in mind.
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I didn't know that.
Plan subsections
1. Buying scanner;
How much can I spend?
What kind of scanner fits my needs (copyright violation)
What scanner will allow me to scan text in such a way as to make it possible to make a pdf later (wouldn't that be a bitch if my scanner
made wonderful pictures but couldn't scan text into a format that would make an ebook!)
What is a reasonable speed expectation?
Are scanners reliable? Is it safe to buy a used one?
what kind of maintenance costs are associated with scanners (are there any consumables within one?)
These questions might seem obvious to an average teenager, but I've only used a scanner once in my life, I was buddy-buddy with the principle in
high school and he called me into the office to check out this new-fangled gadget he got the school board to pop for. It was a "scanner"
that looked like a phaser off of star trek The next generation. (which was a newer show on tv at the time, and you dragged it down a page to scan
in....say your signature. It took about three minutes to scan a swath 5 inches wide and the length of a page. It had resolution that almost matched
the comodore computer, but it did go well with the Principles brand new 386 with 8 whole megs of memory!!!.
Anyway, an update....
I figure I should get an OK scanner if I'm willing to spend no more than 4 million dollars canadian on a used model. That's about 150 bucks
US.  (canuck joke about the state of our dollar)
In the $150 range I found that there is a CRAPLOAD of scanners...
So I searched for reviews of different scanners.
here
After reading all of the reveiws on that site I'm still a little foggy, but I should be back to studying now, so I'll try again tomorrow.
What is OCR and do I need it on my scanner?
Yes I do!
[Edited on 28-10-2004 by Hermes_Trismegistus]
[Edited on 28-10-2004 by Hermes_Trismegistus]
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Check out some serious computer-magazines for a scanner with the best price performance ratio.
For PDF-creation you only need 600dpi and it should be hard to find even an old scanner with a worse resolution as 600dpi.
LED-scanners are often cheaper, but the LED-light isn't bright enough for the middle of the book, where the book didn't touch the glass. If
there is text very near to the middle of the book, a LED-scanner would have problems to scan it bright and therefore, there would be a black place in
the finished PDF. General rule: LED-scanners are the thin ones and non-LED-scanners are thick.
OCR is made be a program not the scanner itself. The scanner gives only the picture, which will be OCRed by a program like ABBY Finereader. This
program is also best in making the PDF-file.
It's not recommend to buy an old SCSI-scanner (SCSI = connecting system), because of the possible trouble with the SCSI-controller. Buy simple an
USB-version and you will have probably no problems.
And as said you need the Professional version of the Adobe Acrobat to manage your PDF (to correct page numbers, put some PDFs together, etc.).
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Mephisto, I appreciate your comments and suggestions.
However, being a guy who doesn't know how to use a scanner, I can't say that I've kept my major compu-magazine subscriptions paid up!
While searching my University Library, I did have a Eureka moment.
Consumer Reports...the DOW of product reviews! My university has their stuff on e-journal and I can now access most of the e-jounals from home.
YAY!
I did save the reveiws of all the scanners to my hard drive, but don't know how to insert them into this post.....
I have settled on an HP Scanjet 3670, by all reports it doth kick the ass of its competition by a healthy margin and is quite affordable.
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Here is the most recent "consumer reports" review.
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I have a Canon and a Visioneer. I purchased my first scanner just last July 16. Being rated high or low doesn't mean much for book scanning,
unless the review is on this subject.
The Canon makes a lot of noise. It scans 600 dpi grey as fast as 300 b/w. Fast. But the light is dim, and as Mephisto said... It is also quite flimsy.
The cover is not removable. It will not support the weight of a heavy book - the scan head : scan surface has too close a tolerance for the flimsy
plastic that supports it. The software is easy to use and very adjustable. The bundle included Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0. This is nearly as
powerful as Corel 11, as far as this application goes. The other tools that I use, Acrobat 6 and DjVu Document Express, you know where to find these
also.
The Visioneer is much slower in 600 dpi b/w or grey, but all of my book scanning is in 300, where it as fast and quieter than the Canon. The cover is
removable. The scan head is bright white and you can press down on the glass to get the print near the center for those pesky certain parts of a book.
But you get what you pay for ($40) - the software blows. The Canon software is compatable with nearly everything, you can send it anywhere in any
format. But with the Visioneer, the default settings are worthless and what you can do custom is limited. I get around this though. That is the best
thing I can tell anyone about this subject and life in general - don't look for hand-holding tutorials - find the answers yourself and you will
find Understanding. In other words, this takes practice.
I use Omnipage (from the Canon) to straighten bmp pages and save them as tif - this takes about 10 seconds per 100 pages. But that's all that I
use it for. I use the built-in OCR of DjVu and Acrobat for OCR because I don't really care and only do it to make searching easier. When I
remember to OCR before uploading. I don't use the other software (that came with the scanners) that I haven't mentioned - it is useless for
books.
Inorg Syn, Inorganic Preparations, Inorganic Lab Preps, Glassblowing for Lab Techs, Systematic Organic Chemistry, Techniques of Glass Manipulation
(not the scanners fault), and Preparation of Organic Intermediates were made by the Canon. Oxidations in Organic Chemistry, Reductions by the Alumino
and Borohydrides, Mellor 8, and Vogel 5 are from the Visioneer.
I'd gladly trash both scanners for something that scans faster and brighter, like the copy machines at the library. I only get 2.75 pages per
minute, either one. Neither will scan continuously, I have to push a button each time. I am not satisfied with either one.
Of course software that would automatically straighten and crop to a certain page size (centering the text) as the pages are scanned would be very
useful, therefore it does not seem to exist.
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This is going to be a long post. I scanned another book today, the Gattermann-Wieland that I've pasted from twice before, but I want to talk
about a previous one first.
If you take a look at Zubrick, you'll see that it is better than the others, even the one after it and this latest one. This is because it was scanned in 600 dpi. The whole thing, scanning to uploading, took 4
hours. Can you make room for 4 hours?
I still have the same 2 crappy scanners, though. To recap, one scans 600 very slow, but the other scans 600 as fast as the other scans 300 - but
cannot take the weight of a book pressed down on it. Well, Zubrick was a paperback. The covers were torn off and then the glue was scraped
and sanded off. This made the whole process easier than usual, and allowed use of the better scanner.
I hesitated to give advice before, and I was led astray by others' advice when I got my scanner. After a lot of trial, I trashed everything that
I had heard and figured it out for myself. Worked out well. I still believe in what I said about hand-holding, but then again, no one is scanning
anything. So this is my process, FWIW. The straightening, resizing canvas, cropping, resizing canvas again, straightening again, then resizing again
that follow are all batch processes that take 2 minutes at the most per 100 pages each. Earlier, I was trying to crank them out as fast as I could,
and didn't care if they were far from professional. I deliberately put off doing the better books. I feel bad about doing some of what I've
done in only 300 dpi, but can't afford more scanner right now.
The scanner is set to scan in .bmp the minimum length and height possible. The default darkness setting is perfect on the nice scanner, and worthless
on the other. Experimentation showed that turning the gamma control all the way down to .5 was best. All of the left hand pages are scanned at the
same time, and then the right pages are scanned to another folder. Since all of the scanning is done in the corner of the scanner, this means that the
left hand pages are scanned upside down.
It is very important with this process to keep each page near the same position. This gets difficult in certain areas of the book where pages on top
of the one you're scanning - or the cover - make it difficult to position the page in the corner properly. If you're careful you could do it
outside of the corner, but I digress. You get the point.
Now I have a left folder and a right folder. More folders are created for each side to accomodate the next steps. Every step and every side gets a new
folder.
First thing to do is straighten the pages. Maybe your scanner came with OCR software. Finereader straightens best of the 3 I've tried. You
don't have to go through the reading process or anything, just File>Open>Ctrl+A and the whole folder is straightened in a flash. Select
all, despeckle, select all again, save image as, in new folder, as bmp.
There is some distortion on some pages though, occasionally a line of text has a top half that doesn't quite match the bottom half, on the pages
that the OCR program rotated. Unavoidable, except to keep them straight to begin with, which is harder than you think. So it might be better to batch
rotate the pages that are upside down in photoshop, then run through OCR, rather than have the OCR program do it and mess with every page.
The upside down pages are now right side up. If there are pages with tables I make sure that the OCR program didn't make any pages horizontal,
which is bad in the next step.
I make the pages as straight as possible to begin with, because the straightening process adds to the # of pixels. It adds blank area to make it
vertically rectangular again, and you want to add as little as you can.
I've used different versions of Photoshop and Corel for the rest. With Corel, I don't know how to batch process anything when the files are
in different sizes, because the script I get is based on the original size of the template. Remember that I am computer illiterate and have no desire
to learn Java or Visual Basic. But with Photoshop this is easy and makes the canvas the same size regardless of whether or not the files to be
converted are of different sizes. The canvas is resized to the original size of the scan. Border is trimmed off. This takes 2 minutes and no
guesswork.
Now that everything is the same size, I can do the rest either in Corel or Photoshop: I find a page that is in between extremes and crop it to the
minimum size, recording the script that the program uses to do this. Both programs have a script recorder, though they are not particularly easy to
find. That script is used to batch crop every page on that side. With practice, you can do it right the first time.
Any pages that were too far off to one side are deleted and the page is processed manually. These are rare if you do it right.
Now any one of these cropped pages is resized to a certain size, the image is centered onto a larger canvas. Using that script, all of the pages are
batch resized and centered. Using Mephisto's pdf compression tool, certain sizes do not compress at all, I've never figured out the rhyme
and reason with this despite extensive testing with many sizes.
Now I go though the pages in Photoshop, erasing here and there. If a page is a little off-center, all I have to do is drag it while holding Ctrl.
Super simple. A 450 page book can be half-ass edited in an hour.
But not all of the pages are straight. No matter how many times you run it through Finereader, it will find more to straighten, just a little bit
more. So everything is straightened and the canvas resized (to the size before straightening) as before.
Last, I batch rename the files, putting both sides into the same folder for the first time. The right pages are given a 4 digit serial+a, then the
left 4 digit serial+b. This puts the pages in perfect order, as long as there are no skipped pages. I convert bmp to CCITT G4 pdf, and use
Mephisto's compression tool to shrink this. The number of pages in the pdf makes a little difference in the amount of compression. I find it best
to make 200 page pdfs, compress, then put those pdfs together. Like I said, OCR keeps finding new things to do, so I don't use Acrobat's
built-in OCR or Finereader because these will again increase the size of the pages they decide to align, and you can't read without realignment
AFAIK.
With DjVu, I batch convert the bmp to tif because tif gives smaller djvu.
This is all very easy, the most time consuming part is the scanning itself despite all the steps I've written. Give it a try and you will see.
And it really doesn't take long to scan a book. 3 or 4 pages a minute.
It's not like I go to the Library of Congress for my books or anything, I haven't yet used interlibrary loan even. What's in your
library?
Anyways...Here is Gattermann. But there are already 2 widely distributed versions available, why a 3rd? Rhadon's lovely (as usual) 43rd ed. is in
German, and the 1901 edition is a little, um...
This 1937 translation of the 1935 24th edition has been a treasure to me for a long time and you probably won't feel the same way. I got it from
the local used bookstore and found that it had never even been read, many pages were stuck together due to the slightly imperfect edge trimming. It
has "complimentary professional copy" stamped on the cover, so I suppose it became a sale reject for that reason. It is very much a product
of its time, the perfect time IMHO; it has hydrogenation with Ni, Pd, and Pt alongside extraction of urea and uric acid from urine. Both Organic
Syntheses and the Merck Index refer to this edition in some syntheses.
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The software packages you mention - they should be uploaded to a "warez" folder on the FTP.
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[hint]Corel and Finereader are widely available[/hint]
A few thousand people might be abusing Adobe products with emule, not that the management would condone such a thing.
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thank you S.C. Wack
Since your scanned version of Gatterman is old enough not to cause legal trouble, it has been added to the <A
HREF="http://www.sciencemadness.org/library/">library</A>. Downloads from the library should be quick and easy.
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I should add that all of my scanning is b/w, except when there are pictures. These are in greyscale and edited in photoshop by using the black and
white points. The covers of Vogel are the only color, also the only image resizing done, it came out pretty good.
I tried to break the speed record today, and did this in 3 1/2 hours, scanning, ocr, everything. Oh, OCR. Well-
I was doing housekeeping on my computer and found that I hadn't yet deleted the uncompressed pdfs of Gattermann, Brauer, and Zubrick. I already
made OCR'd djvu of all of them and was going to upload them to the FTP when it comes back. But I got to thinking. I don't know what the
latest version of DjVu Editor does, just that it must be hard to warez since I couldn't find it anywhere. But the lack of a page renaming
function has always pissed me off. I mentioned the duplicate file uploading before, I'd rather upload just 1 version. I decided that the larger
file size and different size pages of OCR pdf wasn't enough to warrant continuing to make djvu dupes, especially now with the higher pdf
compression. So from now on, I'll only put out uncorrected OCR'd pdf, no more books in djvu.
And since I had those old pdf's handy, I OCR'd them too, and might as well since I won't be uploading the DjVu's anywhere. So all
of these rars contain the OCR'd versions. There are probably some tables rotated. I didn't go though them much less change anything.
I have Shriner's Systematic Identification of Organic Compounds and was going to scan it, but then I did those 2 Vogels. Now there are 3. There
is some good stuff in Shriner, but oh well. I have volume 1 of Vogels Elementary Practical Organic Chemistry (1957) and there probably isn't
anything in there that isn't in the 3rd ed we already know. And the qualitative organic analysis that is volume 2 is probably the same as what is
in the back of Vogels 3rd ed.
However, volume 3, Quantitative Organic Analysis (1958), is a little different, and much different than the fifth ed. that I scanned earlier. There
are no machine analyses here, but the main thing is that it is a really good read. Highly recommended, lots of good stuff in this 239 page book.
vogel_elementary_quantitative_organic_analysis.rar (2629536 Bytes)
gattermann_ocr.rar (4377527 Bytes)
zubrick_ocr.rar (4475679 Bytes)
brauer_ocr.rar (17584157 Bytes)
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Mephisto
Chemicus Diabolicus
Posts: 295
Registered: 24-8-2002
Location: Germany
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Mood: swinging
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Book-Scanner
Funny how every demand for new products even by minorities like book-scanners is satisfied by industry. I didn't noticed it, but the firm Plustek
brought in the end of 2004 a 'low-cost' scanner on the market, which is specially designed for scanning books. Sometimes evil capitalism
works quite well. 
The advantages compared to a common flatbed-scanner are the speed of scanning and technical design that allows one side of a book to lie flat on the
scanner glass and a scanning head mechanism that can read right up to the edge where the book spine is placed.
The biggest disadvantage is of course the high price of 249 $/€. I think, that's 100 too much for it. Maybe a retail version without that
big software-package could lower the price a bit, but Plustek didn't offer such a version. Perhaps on eBay it will in some months at a more
reasonable price. Additionally the scan quality for photos is worser than with other scanner in this price-segment, but that’s of course not
such important for the target group.
~Mephisto
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S.C. Wack
bibliomaster
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Registered: 7-5-2004
Location: Cornworld, Central USA
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Mood: Enhanced
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Just thought that I'd mention what I'm doing now slightly different than above. I'm up to 90% of where Rhadon and Mephisto were with pdf quality years
ago! Yay. 600 dpi book #2 was finished today. Organic Experiments by Fieser (this goes back to 1935 with the original title Experiments in Organic
Chemistry, which I have the 1941 edition of) and williamson, 7th ed 1992. In the Wack folder or buy your own hard copy for $2, whatever.
The pdf was created in Finereader pro 7, after it read the bmp. Text-under-image as usual; and Finereader allows saving 600 dpi if it is the pdf
creator, just not pdf opened and read with it. JBIG2 lossy was done with Acrobat pro 6 because lossy looks way good in 600 dpi. That is all.
I slightly curved the frame of the Canon for TS1 by hand, eventually fixing the problem mentioned earlier. This allows me fast 600 dpi scans now, so I
thought that I would scan a somewhat modern organic textbook that is actually used (in newer edition) at schools here in the USA. Just so that there
is one in the collection, and I liked this one the best even though it doesn't have many preparations in it. It's just an entry-level lab book where
everything has to be explained in a simple way to stupid American slacker kids and Koreans-on-student-visas. (The local state college has a
requirement that you can only take any particular chemistry class 3 times if your seat can be used by someone whose ability to fail is less proven).
It's a shame that I didn't fix the scanner sooner. It took many hours to bend it the right way. Fortunately the problem could be made worse which gave
clues how to make it better. Who would of guessed that one of those weird determination jags would pay off with success?
BTW, if it isn't obvious yet to those who inquired about TS1 (my last scan before this), HH bought non-prison toilet paper with my donation to his
account, yet later on wiped his ass with my mail. Not that this surprises in the least, I'm just saying. It will not be made publicly available by me
any time soon, just download TS2 from somewhere and forget it. He'd be happy to hear from women, though.
Do not scan text in color or greyscale! Do not be put off by hideous quality image preview on your scanner software when you do a scan, it probably
looks much better with another viewer! Do not even think of using scanner bundled software for anything except running your scanner, download non-crap
software for image manipulation instead!
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