Need help with Scanning Documents

[b1ewsw32]

Can someone instruct me as to how to scan a document(full-text) journal and then post it as a reply, as I often answer many questions which are supported by studies, which I have to copy from journals at my health science library.
It was one of the main reasons I bought my all-in-one..printer,scanner,coppier so that I wouldn't have to type lengthy articles.

I scanned a journal periodical today and saved it in my pictures/documents folder and the total file volume is 1.21 MB and the max. allocation for a jpg or jif file in the attach image section is 102.4 KB

I tried using the Yahoo/Geocities free site to make my own page so members could link over and view my files, but I couldn't get it to work.Maybe I missed a crucial step or I have to subscribe to the advanced ones which require payment.

Any methods and tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

B32

 

[GoinDeep]

Try lowering the scanner resolution ie. 300dpi to 200dpi or lower.
Or once you've scanned the image try lowering the resolution of the image ie. 640x480 to 320x240 or lower. The image size is proportionate to the resolution and size of the image. If this isn't what your looking for just disregard. I'm sure someone here will figure it out.

 

[digger]

Use an OCR program. Your all-in-one probably included one. Don't post the image; post the text. Even though OCR isn't perfect, the reduction in size will more than make up for the occassional typo.

(When NYAG Spitzer filed suit against an alleged spammer, his office posted Acrobat files that contain the images of the printed documents -- 25MB for something that should have taken one percent of that space. There ought to be a law against that!)

 

[b1ewsw32]

Use an OCR program. Your all-in-one probably included one. Don't post the image; post the text. Even though OCR isn't perfect, the reduction in size will more than make up for the occassional typo.

(When NYAG Spitzer filed suit against an alleged spammer, his office posted Acrobat files that contain the images of the printed documents -- 25MB for something that should have taken one percent of that space. There ought to be a law against that!)

I'm not sure what an OCR program is, but I didn't see it in my HP director or the HP photo and imaging gallery. I have a Hewelett-Packard PSC. Would it be avaliable from my original software disc that I used to configure my HP PSC?

You're right about the document versus image post, as I checked and my two page document is installed as an Adobe Acrobat 6.0 with a total file space of 126 KB, a little over the max. for the attach image section. Maybe ther's a way to reduce the size from here,I don't know?

The document is stored in pictures with the title scan and I used the title scan.pdf(type of file) and the attach image accepted, then reported the file is over the max. Duhh.

How would I post it as text from "My Documents" folder and where? as it has the same title..scan. Would it still go to the attach image section? or copy and paste?

Karma for guiding me with exact detail. Thanks!

B32

 

[digger]

OCR = Optical Character Recognition.

Whether your HP came with it depends on the model number; hp.com says that some PSC's come with a program called IRIS OCR. If you don't see anything like that on your CD, you can still pick up some generic software.

Basically you'll scan the paper, the program makes its best guess as to the words, and writes them out to a new document. You can probably tell it to "print" to an Acrobat (PDF) file as a fake printer... and the output will be MUCH smaller than it was. The details depend on the program you use.

Don't waste any karma on me; I happen to be the dude who manufactures it.