In a recent message David Pilling
<flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <khpjxYGE4QlHFwJs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Pilling
> <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>>resolution, according to Windows viewer it is: 16899208 dpi in both X
>>and Y directions.
>
> It occurred to me that they may be scanning microfiche or something.
I have one of the same books from which the pages were scanned in
front of me. It is from the John Rylands University of Manchester
library. Published by the Chetham Society in 1860, it is limited in
its appeal to historians and genealogists. As the libraries from
which the dodgy images were scanned are in the USA (Harvard and
California) and as the Google blurb says that they are scanning books,
I see no reason for any intermediate imaging. DPScan works fine with
images from books in the Bodlean Library Oxford.
>
> I think they're dud values...
>
They most certainly are. You could never get near that resolution
from ink on paper in 1860.
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