The Job:- We have a 350 page book that we need to scan for republication / re-printing.- Once scanned the images will be "pasted" into either Microsoft Word or into Corel Draw X3... then PDF'd and sent to the printer to print a thousand or more copies of the book.
The Status:- It is all black & white book with about about 200 photos.- We are scanning on a Brother MFC 9700 Multi-Function Laser Printer/Scanner using the Microsoft Scanner & Camera Wizzard. - We do not have Corel on the machine with the Scanner- For the text we have been experimenting with different dpi settings (300 & 600) & different file formats (JPG, PNG, TIFF) (600 dpi looks best)
The Plan:- is to scan the book first for text... - then re-scan the pages with photo's... using different settings... if necessary.- Once scanned each page will have to be cropped in Corel Photo Paint (on another machine) and then resaved.- Then later imported or pasted into either Microsoft Word or Corel Draw X-3 (on another machine)
The Questions:1 - What is the best file format to save the scanned images? (This will be our Master Copy).. JPG seems to make the B&W files very big !?.. To maximize quality maybe PNG or TIFF?.. What do you guys suggest?2 - Once cropped in Photo Paint X3 - What format should we save them in?(Remember they will be later imported or repasted into either Corel Draw X3 or Word)
Thanks for any help on this.
Mel_3 said:We are scanning on a Brother MFC 9700 Multi-Function Laser Printer/Scanner using the Microsoft Scanner & Camera Wizzard.
heh, I have same unit, someone gave it to me for free recently
Mel_3 said:plan is to scan the book first for text... then re-scan the pages with photo's... using different settings... if necessary.
I'd scan the whole page at once. if the original print is in rough condition anyway, 300 DPI & greyscale is fine.
Mel_3 said: Once scanned each page will have to be cropped in Corel Photo Paint (on another machine) and then resaved.
You can crop bitmaps very quickly inside Draw directly with the new X3 crop tool.
Mel_3 said:Once cropped in Photo Paint X3 - What format should we save them in?
I tried a test: but it wasn't a book. I scanned 3 pages using Microsoft Scanner and it made a multi-page tiff. Now... to tease you, in X5, I was able to bring multi-page tiff into DRAW, then ungroup it into 3 separate files.
We are scanning the entire pages but the b&w pic's morie really bad.
We cut two books up, interleaved the pages so we didn't have to flip pages... put about 35 at a time in the scanner... set it up for b&w scan at 300 dpi and to save as a PNG because it looked the same as a TIFF and the file size was so much smaller as a PNG. That gave us the pages as text.
Now we are scanning greyscale at 500 dpi so we use Effects - Noise - Remove Morie ... and save the cropped results as a 300 dpi pic. We are following instructions fromhttp://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/photopaint/ht/cppremovemoire.htmwhich tells us to scann about 2x the dpi we want to reduce the morie.
Then we have to crop the text pages & then paste the cropped pic's in place... a lot of work for over 300 page book :) Guess I'm going to learn how to use record macro's & keystroke playback :)
Thanks again for the help folks !