Re: scanning pencil writing 2 -Reply

mailto:rarosenb@GANDALF.RUTGERS.EDU
Fri, 23 Dec 1994 12:26:08 EST

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Date:         Fri, 23 Dec 1994 12:26:08 EST
From: mailto:rarosenb@GANDALF.RUTGERS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: scanning pencil writing 2 -Reply
To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB

>Photoshop is great for enhancing scanned images, but it may not be
>enough if you have poor scans. You may want to consider
>photographing your objects (1860s diary pages) onto 35mm negative
>film and scanning the images to CD using a PIW (photoCD) workstation.
> This low cost approach archives your material on film and photocd,

This is true, but

>and it provides you with an electronic representation that greatly
>exceed what is possible using your HP deskscan.
>
why do you say this? If she is scanning at, say, 250 or 300 dpi (or, for any research purpose, at 200 or even 150 dpi) in 24-bit color, what more information could she need?

Bob Rosenberg Thomas A. Edison Papers Rutgers University mailto:rarosenb@gandalf.rutgers.edu