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Need help with scanning and conversion process
Matt Wood | May 30 2006
I'm looking to scan a fair amount of documents for a research project (so I don't have to carry them with me everywhere), and I'd like to get some input on the best way to scan them and convert them into a workable format, like PDF. I've done this the hard way for one-off jobs before, by scanning with my little Canon flat bed scanner as an image then converting to PDF via the OS X print to PDF function, but this is time consuming and the files turn out quite large. Does anyone have any more recommendations on how to do this more efficiently? I read about the Fujitsu scanner on this thread, which sounds fantastic, but that's a lot of money. I also hear that Kinko's will scan documents for you. How is their service? Any other software or gear that can automate this? 6 Comments
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 PDF isn't very efficient unless...Submitted by enine on May 31, 2006 - 4:19am.
PDF isn't very efficient unless you OCR the text and then it can start compressing down some. A few years back I started leaving my scans in tif format and then use tools like ImageMagick to convert to gray scale or just drop the number of colors. If your going to clean up the docs afterward then let Adobe OCR them and start drawing lines and such and let it convert the images to objects. » POSTED IN:
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