Hi Dave,
I thought you might be interested in reading my scanning requirements for items to be put into aw.org's new Daily Doctrine Dispenser. Most people on aw.org just want to send me stuff to scan and return to them via the mail. But a few others have stated they would like to scan it themselves. I said that was fine, but I have very strict standards because I want these files to be as top quality as possible. So anyway here is what I posted on aw for scanning requirements...
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<li>All pages of a document must be scanned at 300dpi and saved into a non-compressed .TIF file. </li>
<li>I'll want all the original page .TIF files separately, not combined into one .pdf file. I want to keep the .pdf file/OCR conversion into searchable text all consistent, so I'll create the .pdf files once I get your page scans. </li>
<li>The documents must be absolutely complete from cover to cover, no rips, no major fold lines, no big smudges or other imperfections and no missing pages. Punch holes for 3 ring binders are OK, as well as minor dust and scratches. I can remove those in Photoshop manually. </li>
<li>All pages in an entire document must be scanned at the exact same size.</li>
<li>Pages must be scanned as straight as possible, if its off by a hair its OK I can rotate them in Photoshop but anything more than a hair off will make the text slightly fuzzy when you zoom in.</li>
<li>Scanning items that are bound like books and stapled brochures can sometimes produce shadows at the page edges, if they are very minor and I can correct it in Photoshop fine, but otherwise I'll have to reject that document. This happens because the edges of near the binding can lift off the scanner glass slightly. Pressing down on the scanner cover can help to eleviate some of this.</li>
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Scanning files properly will produce color files around 25mb per page in color or 12mb in black and white. For anyone who is scanning I'll set up an FTP user account on aw.org where you can simply drag the files from your hard drive directly into your own directory on the web sever, so there is no need to worry about emailing files so large. FTP is very simple and FileZilla is a great free FTP program for both windows and mac.
If there is enough interest here and I can get lots of stuff to scan (or have good quality scans sent to me), I can start with making at least one day a week dedicated in the Dispenser to vacuum cleaners for sure. We can talk about that further if you wish.
If you haven't seen the samples of the quality of scanning and document cleaning that I'm talking about, please download the samples on the Dispenser Sample Page.
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I thought you might be interested in reading my scanning requirements for items to be put into aw.org's new Daily Doctrine Dispenser. Most people on aw.org just want to send me stuff to scan and return to them via the mail. But a few others have stated they would like to scan it themselves. I said that was fine, but I have very strict standards because I want these files to be as top quality as possible. So anyway here is what I posted on aw for scanning requirements...
<ul>
<li>All pages of a document must be scanned at 300dpi and saved into a non-compressed .TIF file. </li>
<li>I'll want all the original page .TIF files separately, not combined into one .pdf file. I want to keep the .pdf file/OCR conversion into searchable text all consistent, so I'll create the .pdf files once I get your page scans. </li>
<li>The documents must be absolutely complete from cover to cover, no rips, no major fold lines, no big smudges or other imperfections and no missing pages. Punch holes for 3 ring binders are OK, as well as minor dust and scratches. I can remove those in Photoshop manually. </li>
<li>All pages in an entire document must be scanned at the exact same size.</li>
<li>Pages must be scanned as straight as possible, if its off by a hair its OK I can rotate them in Photoshop but anything more than a hair off will make the text slightly fuzzy when you zoom in.</li>
<li>Scanning items that are bound like books and stapled brochures can sometimes produce shadows at the page edges, if they are very minor and I can correct it in Photoshop fine, but otherwise I'll have to reject that document. This happens because the edges of near the binding can lift off the scanner glass slightly. Pressing down on the scanner cover can help to eleviate some of this.</li>
</ul>
Scanning files properly will produce color files around 25mb per page in color or 12mb in black and white. For anyone who is scanning I'll set up an FTP user account on aw.org where you can simply drag the files from your hard drive directly into your own directory on the web sever, so there is no need to worry about emailing files so large. FTP is very simple and FileZilla is a great free FTP program for both windows and mac.
If there is enough interest here and I can get lots of stuff to scan (or have good quality scans sent to me), I can start with making at least one day a week dedicated in the Dispenser to vacuum cleaners for sure. We can talk about that further if you wish.
If you haven't seen the samples of the quality of scanning and document cleaning that I'm talking about, please download the samples on the Dispenser Sample Page.
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