I have just today purchased an A3 scanner/printer to produce digital copies of my Grandfathers flying logbooks, but am unsure of the best software to use.
I started to use paperport, but it keeps freezing and saying ‘not responding’ – something which I could do without considering the books are 4 1/2 inches thick!
Can anyone recommend suitable software?
By: Merlin3945 - 21st November 2012 at 22:33
If your going for the PDF route then you are probably better off spreading it over months or years of service to save having a big PDF file.
By: Snapper - 21st November 2012 at 00:44
Not that I know of; what you’ll need to do is scan them in as individuals then import them into something (word is ok) and save as a pdf when you’re done. It’ll be a big file.
By: ajw - 20th November 2012 at 20:09
The scanner does have its won software which I started to use, but I could only get each scan as an individual document. The logbooks cover a 30 year + RAF career and as a result, there are LOTS of pages! I would prefer to have them all in one document for ease of printing and reading on the PC.
Is there someway of scanning them as individual documents (I guess PDF is the best file format?) and putting them all together when all pages are scanned in??
By: André1967 - 18th November 2012 at 11:51
Like Snapper suggested a version of Photoshop will be fine. Actually I have an (old) HP OfficeJet G55 which doesn’t run in WIN7 but works well in Photoshop CS2.
By: Snapper - 18th November 2012 at 10:41
Whenever I’ve scanned logbooks (one for publication and another for myself) I used the software that came with the scanner – a mustek in my case – through Photoshop as it installed with the option of doing it ‘standalone’ or through that existing imaging programme.
300dpi is sufficient and if you size it to the same as the original through cropping and then apply a sufficient amount of unsharp masking, adjust exposure and contrast in levels and so on it should result in a good copy.Don’t forget to use plenty of pressure to keep the pages as flat as you can (having the boom unbound and rebound is the ideal way but a palaver) Good luck.
By: AlanR - 18th November 2012 at 10:34
Are you after digital images, or do you need OCR software to save them as
text files ? Although saying that, I imagine these are hand written books ?
Either way, these normally come with the scanner. As you are asking, it
seems yours didn’t.
I would have thought that software would be available from the makers of
the scanner.
By: Moggy C - 18th November 2012 at 00:17
Does the scanner not come with its own software?
Moggy
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November 17, 2012 at 11:08 pm