Hi. If anyone could help me with this, it'd be much appreciated! At my office, we have a brand new canon scanner. It's the 8600F. There are two things I need to know because I have thousands of books to scan for a website, so they can be viewed as thumbnails and larger images. The first thing I would like to know is; what resoluation I should be scanning those images? The second question is: With there being so many books for me to scan, does anyone know a efficent and quick method of doing this? Hope that made sense. All answers will be greatly appreciated! Gareth
When i used to use my scanner, i had to use the "moierre(sp)" filter on otherwise you;d get the blotchy effect from pictures in the final scan. Uauslly it depends what rez you;d want to see the final result in. 400x400 is a good average but it depends on the final result. As for batch scanning i cant help you there. But im sure the newer software is alot easier to use than my old canon scanner, Photoshop is handy to use whilst scanning as it can interface with the TWAIN drivers.
Cheers. Thanks for advice. I think I've got it all sorted now. I've been scanning flatout for almost3 hours!lol
Couple of thoughts for you. - Name the files in a 100% consistent/predictable manner - eg by ISBN/Accession number etc - as I'm sure you'll want to programmatically access them later on - There are 'batch type' routines/utilities available to trawl through a directory and generate 'thumbnail' versions based on preset parameters - eg size/jpg-quality - don't have time to find/name them but know they exist - used them 5+ years ago.
