-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2009-06-18 at 15:51 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Thursday June 18 2009, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Thursday, 2009-06-18 at 16:36 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
Looks like it only goes up to 600x600 dpi optical, though.
For document archive 600x600 is overkill.
Typically 200x200 is used and 300x300 is used for high quality. Assuming your coming from normal paper docs.
If I were scanning my magazine collections, with photos, I would use 600dpi minimum, so that I could print a page later as good as the original.
I agree, and 600 dpi won't get you a particularly faithful reproduction. Phototypsetting equipment realizes 2400 DPI, typically.
600 dpi happens to be my printer resolution, so going further would be pointless ;-)
Which makes me wonder if it could be possible to scan a page with different resolutions for text and images, automatically.
Maybe in the future.
Or at least store it differently. Perhaps DjVu... but the available open tools for creating djvu files are far from optimal.
I'm a little curious what Google and ACM (to name only two) use to digitize print collections. The results render well and, what's much more impressive are OCR-ed quite well, too. ACM's entire digital library (most of which predates digital originals) is searchable even when the original had to be scanned and OCR-ed.
Yep. Good OCR for me is almost impossible to achieve, but these big chaps seems to have it solved. Djvu format, by the way, can store B/W for text, color for photos, and text for the OCR, all in the same file and for each page. In theory, at least: with the open tools we have that's almost impossible to get. The better tools are not open. It is a very good format for scanned material, but it doesn't seem to catch :-? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAko8naAACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XZjACeP8AKmEtwJDlMP1rsAtitF6aM sW0AoI7QZhla26P/CbR86Tr5SHVgMTjR =GHRx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org