[mdlug] Scanning help

[Jay Nugent]

Greetings,

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Garry Stahl wrote:

> Help!  I have 18 very old sheets of paper in the size of 18" x 12" I
> need scanned.  Kinkos wanted over 200 dollars to do what is at most 20
> minutes work.  Most places do not have scanners that can handle the
> paper size.  (Most ofthe flat bed scanners in copy ships are 17" x 11".
> 
> I need 300 dpi, PNG preferred JEPG will do.
> 
> Does anyone have access to a color scanner than can do the job?

   What is a scanner but a digital photograph.

   Place the sheets on a flat surface, appropriately lighted from multiple
directions (for best contrast and limits reflections from smooth paper
surfaces), and support a digital camara SQUARE to the papers surface (so 
there is no trapazoid effect), and shoot!

   I copied hundreds of family photos by placing them on the porch steps
of my Aunts house in broad (non-direct) daylight, and shot them with a
digital camera.  They came out great!  Even zoomed in for closeups of
faces, etc.

      --- Jay Nugent

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