{"id":7,"date":"2011-09-01T08:45:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T14:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aafcollection.info\/comm\/?p=7"},"modified":"2013-09-22T14:46:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T20:46:56","slug":"how-to-scan-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/2011\/09\/01\/how-to-scan-items\/","title":{"rendered":"How-To: Scan Items"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you want to contribute an item to the AAF Collection and you have a scanner connected to your computer, you can use it to scan each page of the item. If it is too large for the scanner bed, you may wish to use a digital camera instead. See How-To: Photograph Items<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are some recommended settings and tips if you use a scanner to scan your document.<\/p>\n

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  1. Choose the option for True Color<\/strong> mode.<\/li>\n
  2. Scan at original document size (100%<\/strong>). Please do not enlarge or reduce the image.<\/li>\n
  3. Choose a scan resolution of 150 dpi<\/strong> (dots per inch). If you are scanning photographs, consider 300 dpi<\/strong> unless the resulting files are too large.<\/li>\n
  4. Use a descreen<\/strong> filter if you are scanning a magazine or newspaper. This eliminates the interference pattern you might see on your scanned images. Magazine descreening is typically 133 lines per inch (lpi) while newspaper descreening is 85 lpi.<\/li>\n
  5. Scan to create a JPEG<\/strong> (.JPG) image file. If you can, set the JPEG quality level to 80% (better). This results in a slightly larger file, but the quality is better. An ideal format would be to create a TIFF (.TIF) image file. TIFF is a loss-less format, meaning the image can be changed and re-saved without losing image quality, as JPEG would. However TIFF files tend to be very large and the loss of quality with JPEG is not significant.<\/li>\n
  6. Number your image files consecutively<\/strong>. This will help the curator create a PDF document. For example, name your files page001.jpg<\/tt>, page002.jpg<\/tt>, page003.jpg<\/tt>, and so on.<\/li>\n
  7. Scan all pages<\/strong> of the document. Include blank pages, and even the inside cover pages, and the back cover. Pages can then be combined correctly into a PDF document and facing pages will continue to face each other, as in the original document.<\/li>\n
  8. Try to keep the pages of the document straight and aligned consistently<\/strong> while scanning. This helps the curator from having to rotate each skewed image.<\/li>\n
  9. If a page does not fit completely on your scanner, scan it in portions<\/strong>. The curator will either stitch the portions together to make a single page, or create several pages in place of the single large page.<\/li>\n
  10. An excellent program to view and organize image files is XnView<\/strong>, available for free at www.xnview.com<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n


    \nHow-To: Contribute Items<\/a>
    \n    How-To: Photograph Items<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If you want to contribute an item to the AAF Collection and you have a scanner connected to your computer, you can use it to scan each page of the item. If it is too large for the scanner bed, you may wish to use a digital camera instead. See How-To: Photograph Items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,4],"tags":[7,8,9,10,6,73,12,5,11],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributions","category-how-to","category-scanning","tag-descreen","tag-dpi","tag-jpeg","tag-jpg","tag-resolution","tag-scanning","tag-tiff","tag-true-color","tag-xnview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aafcollection.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}