bhooliya Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 (edited) Khalsa Ji, I am trying to scan old books for online and would like to request your expert feedback? Can you please share your wisdom on scanning books so they come out as books on books.google.com? Thanks Edited December 11, 2009 by bhooliya 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsingh101 Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 Firstly, what are the books you want to scan and distribute like this? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhooliya Posted December 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2009 These are hand written research papers compiled as books. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsingh101 Posted December 12, 2009 Report Share Posted December 12, 2009 It's not hard, you need a decent scanner and Adobe Acrobat (NOT the free reader but the full software). Once you scan the images you put them together using Acrobat. The trick is to get the files as small as possible so you don't have an enormous file size. I'm not too clued up about that bit myself but I think it involves toying around with the distiller function. Hope you can share any interesting stuff with us here! lol 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xylitol Posted December 12, 2009 Report Share Posted December 12, 2009 what is a good dpi to use for scanning text to compile into a pdf? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsingh101 Posted December 13, 2009 Report Share Posted December 13, 2009 what is a good dpi to use for scanning text to compile into a pdf? Experiment trying to get as low as possible. For plain black and white printed text that is clear in the original you may be able to get to 150 dpi (or even lower). Use your discretion, just make sure it is easily legible. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhooliya Posted December 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2009 I found good tutorials on this subject. It's worth checking them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsingh101 Posted December 13, 2009 Report Share Posted December 13, 2009 I found good tutorials on this subject. It's worth checking them. Wow! The way that dude circular sawed the books was hardcore. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.