The Imaging Process
The scanner takes digital 'snapshots' of your paper and converts them into bi-tonal image files, normally at 300 dpi, which can be viewed, printed or archived.
Once 'captured', your images can also be manipulated in various ways, including conversion to another graphic format (GIF, JPG, BMP, PDF, etc.), unique file-naming for archiving, or run through an OCR application for text translation.
Options include checking for clarity, skewing and other anomalies, manual 'scrubbing' to filter out stray marks and smudges, and erasure of unwanted lines, marks, etc.
Your images can then be burned to CD or transmitted to you via FTP.
The conversion of your paper to digital format starts with simple imaging . . .
DPI (dots per inch) can range from 100 to 800, depending on the degree of resolution required . . .
For OCR, the imaging must fall within the range of 200 to 400 dpi.
(One CD can contain 10-15,000 image files; one DVD can contain over 1,000,000 image files.)
Click below to view sample images.
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