In message of 23 Apr, Dave Barnett <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'll now go and have another try at scanning some family > trees that I found in an old book. I have taken several hints from a company, now dormant, called ArchiveCDBooks. They scanned loads of old books, many with family trees. They achieved very readable and relatively small files using their overhead book scanner. They probably had superior software to clean up the images. But I have found that the better part of their results can use achieved with Imagemaster (call a spade a spade) by following their practices: (a) scan at 200 dots per inch, (b) scan in black and white. You may have to adjust the brightness for difficult documents and very difficult ones will have to go to grey-scale. I use no error correction. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@xxxxxxxxx For a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ To unsubscribe or subscribe goto: //www.freelists.org/list/davidpilling