Equipment
- Windows XP box with 2GB RAM, AMD Athlon XP 2700+
- HP Scanjet 3670
Software
- HP Scanjet software (bundled)
- Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0
- Adobe Photoshop CS 8.0
Procedure
- All Programs...Hewlett-Packard...Scanjet Scanner 36X0 Series...Photo & Imaging Director
- Choose "Scan Document"
- Select - Scan for editable text (OCR)? Yes
- Select - Original contains graphics? No
- Scan to: "Save to file"
- Click "Scan"
- Rotate as appropriate with buttons on left hand side
- Click "Accept"
- Click "No" when asked to scan another image
- Save file as <page numbers>.pdf (e.g., 366-367.pdf)
- Open pdf file
- Tools...Advanced Editing...TouchUp Object Tool
- Left-click on page to select, then right-click and choose "Edit Image"
- Ignore warning about flattening image (Check "Don't show again" and click "OK")
- File...Save for web...
- Choose "JPEG Low" preset
- Adjust image size to 75%, click "Apply"
- Click "Save"
- Save file as <page numbers>.jpg (e.g., 366-367.jpg)
- Upload file to wiki
- Description: Reports of Committe on Foreign Relations 1789-1901 Volume 6 pp<xxx>-<xxx>
- Add new page link on wiki MainPage
[[<xxx>-<xxx>]]
- Edit new page in wiki, and put in stub code
[[<xxx>-<xxx>|Previous Page]] [[<xxx>-<xxx>|Next Page]]
[[Image:<xxx>-<xxx>.jpg|thumb|400px|Reports of Committe on Foreign Relations 1789-1901 Volume 6 pp<xxx>-<xxx>]]
{{<xxx>-<xxx>}}
- Click on the "Template:<xxx>-<xxx>" link and copy the text from the pdf
- Spell-check and copy edit the text
- fix hyphenated words
- put a blank line before each paragraph
- Add the page to the bottom of the Transcribed Morgan Report
{{<xxx>-<xxx>}}
Notes
- Scanning in at 300ppi, 256 gray shades (8-bit grayscale)
- I'm not uploading the raw PDF files, since they're about 5 times as large as the jpgs