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I am using Epson Scan that has three modes, home, office, and
professional. None improve things much. My real problem is that the original is quite 'weak' - the printing is not very distinct, even in my original copy (which may be a scanned copy in and of itself I guess). I just need something to make the black (gray) more black, and the white more white. Can someone suggest a W7 something? Big Fred |
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 09:08:30 -0400, wrote:
I am using Epson Scan that has three modes, home, office, and professional. None improve things much. My real problem is that the original is quite 'weak' - the printing is not very distinct, even in my original copy (which may be a scanned copy in and of itself I guess). I just need something to make the black (gray) more black, and the white more white. Can someone suggest a W7 something? Big Fred 1. Is your document primarily text? 2. How many pages? If it is mostly text, the easiest thing to try would be OCR (Optical Character Recognition). Abby offers an online OCR service that will give you a limited number of pages for free. http://finereader.abbyyonline.com/en This will basically digitize the text and create a band new document with editable text. |
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In addition to CL's advice, you might try editing.
You have a scanned image in black and white? Have you ever used graphic editing software? If you know nothing at all about it you can get some functionality from the free IrfanView. If you're familiar with such software then use Paint Shop Pro, PhotoShop, the GIMP, or something similar to open the scanned image. (There's also the free Paint.Net, which seems to be well reviewed, if you don't mind installing a monstrously bloated .Net framework. Paint.Net is made by Microsofties, and they're careful to make sure that it always requires the very latest version of .Net, which I think is something like 1/2 GB these days.) I have PSP 16 for extensive editing and working with RAW photos, but I actually use PSP5 for most work. It does most editing tasks with a lot less complexity than PSP16. The graphic editing programs have always been a challenge to learn, and over the years they've become increasingly bloated and unnecessarily complex. IrfanView does a remarkable amount, but it lacks a basic workspace where you can cut/copy/paste, have numerous undo levels, zoom in and out easily, etc. Once you have the software, you have several options: contrast/brightness adjustment hue/saturation/lightness adjustment sharpness adjustment color depth adjustment You might need to fiddle around a bit. There are tradeoffs. For instance, if you reduce it to a 2-color image you'll get good black/white contrast, but you'll also lose any grays that might be providing smooth edge transitions between white and black. |I am using Epson Scan that has three modes, home, office, and | professional. None improve things much. My real problem is that the | original is quite 'weak' - the printing is not very distinct, even in | my original copy (which may be a scanned copy in and of itself I | guess). I just need something to make the black (gray) more black, | and the white more white. Can someone suggest a W7 something? | Big Fred |
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 06:18:44 -0700, Charles Lindbergh
wrote: On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 09:08:30 -0400, wrote: I am using Epson Scan that has three modes, home, office, and professional. None improve things much. My real problem is that the original is quite 'weak' - the printing is not very distinct, even in my original copy (which may be a scanned copy in and of itself I guess). I just need something to make the black (gray) more black, and the white more white. Can someone suggest a W7 something? Big Fred 1. Is your document primarily text? Yes 2. How many pages? 30 If it is mostly text, the easiest thing to try would be OCR (Optical Character Recognition). Abby offers an online OCR service that will give you a limited number of pages for free. http://finereader.abbyyonline.com/en This will basically digitize the text and create a band new document with editable text. I tried page 1 - only had a few fixable errors. Then I changed the font in the .doc page to bold, and voila! The text is great. Thanks. Fred |
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:35:15 -0400, wrote:
On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 06:18:44 -0700, Charles Lindbergh wrote: On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 09:08:30 -0400, wrote: I am using Epson Scan that has three modes, home, office, and professional. None improve things much. My real problem is that the original is quite 'weak' - the printing is not very distinct, even in my original copy (which may be a scanned copy in and of itself I guess). I just need something to make the black (gray) more black, and the white more white. Can someone suggest a W7 something? Big Fred 1. Is your document primarily text? Yes 2. How many pages? 30 If it is mostly text, the easiest thing to try would be OCR (Optical Character Recognition). Abby offers an online OCR service that will give you a limited number of pages for free. http://finereader.abbyyonline.com/en This will basically digitize the text and create a band new document with editable text. I tried page 1 - only had a few fixable errors. Then I changed the font in the .doc page to bold, and voila! The text is great. Thanks. Fred Oh good, so the OCR solved your problem? |
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 13:09:03 -0700, Charles Lindbergh
wrote: On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:35:15 -0400, wrote: On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 06:18:44 -0700, Charles Lindbergh wrote: On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 09:08:30 -0400, wrote: I am using Epson Scan that has three modes, home, office, and professional. None improve things much. My real problem is that the original is quite 'weak' - the printing is not very distinct, even in my original copy (which may be a scanned copy in and of itself I guess). I just need something to make the black (gray) more black, and the white more white. Can someone suggest a W7 something? Big Fred 1. Is your document primarily text? Yes 2. How many pages? 30 If it is mostly text, the easiest thing to try would be OCR (Optical Character Recognition). Abby offers an online OCR service that will give you a limited number of pages for free. http://finereader.abbyyonline.com/en This will basically digitize the text and create a band new document with editable text. I tried page 1 - only had a few fixable errors. Then I changed the font in the .doc page to bold, and voila! The text is great. Thanks. Fred Oh good, so the OCR solved your problem? Essentially yes. I have had to do minor edits, and am half done on the document itself. I thank you for the helps. Big Fred |
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 19:13:22 -0400, wrote:
On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 13:09:03 -0700, Charles Lindbergh wrote: On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:35:15 -0400, wrote: On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 06:18:44 -0700, Charles Lindbergh wrote: On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 09:08:30 -0400, wrote: I am using Epson Scan that has three modes, home, office, and professional. None improve things much. My real problem is that the original is quite 'weak' - the printing is not very distinct, even in my original copy (which may be a scanned copy in and of itself I guess). I just need something to make the black (gray) more black, and the white more white. Can someone suggest a W7 something? Big Fred 1. Is your document primarily text? Yes 2. How many pages? 30 If it is mostly text, the easiest thing to try would be OCR (Optical Character Recognition). Abby offers an online OCR service that will give you a limited number of pages for free. http://finereader.abbyyonline.com/en This will basically digitize the text and create a band new document with editable text. I tried page 1 - only had a few fixable errors. Then I changed the font in the .doc page to bold, and voila! The text is great. Thanks. Fred Oh good, so the OCR solved your problem? Essentially yes. I have had to do minor edits, and am half done on the document itself. I thank you for the helps. You are more than welcome, I am glad it helped! We use high speed Fujitsu scanners and Abby Fine Reader extensively. Both contribute tremendously to reducing our cost of business. |
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 06:18:44 -0700, Charles Lindbergh wrote:
On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 09:08:30 -0400, wrote: I am using Epson Scan that has three modes, home, office, and professional. None improve things much. My real problem is that the original is quite 'weak' - the printing is not very distinct, even in my original copy (which may be a scanned copy in and of itself I guess). I just need something to make the black (gray) more black, and the white more white. Can someone suggest a W7 something? Big Fred 1. Is your document primarily text? 2. How many pages? If it is mostly text, the easiest thing to try would be OCR (Optical Character Recognition). Abby offers an online OCR service that will give you a limited number of pages for free. http://finereader.abbyyonline.com/en This will basically digitize the text and create a band new document with editable text. The version of Epson Scan with my XP-800 includes OCR capability, so Roger might be able to use his the same way. He didn't indicate the model of his printer. But it seems he's gotten good results already... -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:20:35 -0700 "Charles Lindbergh"
-snip- You are more than welcome, I am glad it helped! We use high speed Fujitsu scanners and Abby Fine Reader extensively. Both contribute tremendously to reducing our cost of business. I've found that Abby can do an excellent job with a sharp photo of a page. I use it frequently to archive articles now; no scanner required. |
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On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 08:27:18 -0400, Jason wrote:
On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:20:35 -0700 "Charles Lindbergh" -snip- You are more than welcome, I am glad it helped! We use high speed Fujitsu scanners and Abby Fine Reader extensively. Both contribute tremendously to reducing our cost of business. I've found that Abby can do an excellent job with a sharp photo of a page. I use it frequently to archive articles now; no scanner required. A scanner is simply an imaging device. I too have photographed important documents and then used Abby to convert them into editable text. However, that becomes somewhat tedious when you need to process a couple of thousand pages in a day. |
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On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 07:35:07 -0700 "Charles Lindbergh"
wrote in article On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 08:27:18 -0400, Jason wrote: On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:20:35 -0700 "Charles Lindbergh" -snip- You are more than welcome, I am glad it helped! We use high speed Fujitsu scanners and Abby Fine Reader extensively. Both contribute tremendously to reducing our cost of business. I've found that Abby can do an excellent job with a sharp photo of a page. I use it frequently to archive articles now; no scanner required. A scanner is simply an imaging device. I too have photographed important documents and then used Abby to convert them into editable text. However, that becomes somewhat tedious when you need to process a couple of thousand pages in a day. But for just a handful of pages it's hard to beat, especially if you don't happen to be near a handy scanner. |
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