Paul Jones of iBiblio tells me that Natasha Smith of the UNC-based  
Documenting the American South. has some
"serious guidelines."

Best,

Dan



On Nov 5, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Randy Cabell wrote:

> Interesting.  My wife is going through old newspaper clippings  
> about her parents, ca. 1940-1980.  She is scanning everything at  
> 300 dpi, gray scale. Most of the clippings have photographs, which  
> are the old "half tone" composed of dots which have fixed loctions  
> but vary in density to simulate gray scale.  I think they re at  
> about 72 dpi.  She has gotten pretty good about processing those  
> photos through the "Smooth" in the EFFECTS Filter, at the lowest  
> setting, which does a surprisingly good job of producing a good photo.
>
> I did a couple of color photos from a 2001 newspaper clipping this  
> morning, and did more or less the same thing except using color.   
> In both cases, the resulting documents will go to PDF.
>
> Randy Cabell
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>> When working with newsprint, I use the lowest DPI (dots per inch)  
>> available on my
>> scanner -- 75 DPI. I have an option that allows me to switch to  
>> "descreen". This
>> combination provides a decent scan.
>>
>> See: http://www.scantips.com/
>>
>> Regards, Ray
>>
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>> Is there any particular method, process, or resolution that is  
>> recommended for scanning
>> old paper documents?
>>
>> Harris Kern
>>
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