[bksvol-discuss] Scanning Old Mass Market Paperbacks
- From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 14:26:18 EDT
Some of you will recall that when I first started scanning books for
Bookshare I was looking around for something to scan and found an old mass
market
paperback that was published in 1963. Scanning it turned out to be an
impossible task. Since then I have scanned and submitted several hardcover and
trade paperbacks and learned some techniques for scanning. One of those
experiences was a trade paperback that was turning out terrible, but when I
scanned
one page at a time and checked each page before going on to the next one I
was able to rescan the difficult pages as I came to them and some of them I
rescanned over and over before I got it right, but I finally did get it
right. Since that time I have adopted the one page at a time method for all my
scans. I remember that even though that book was a trade paperback the pages
felt like they might have been made of mass market quality paper and that
might have been the problem. Anyway, now that I have some experience behind me
I have laid my hands on several older used mass market paperbacks and I
have been experimenting with them. So far I have found only one page that
scanned perfectly. Other pages have numerous errors throughout them, but I
think
they can be repaired. Still other pages scan nothing but garble and remain
garble no matter how many times I rescan them. I had someone with sight take
a look at them to see if there was a difference and I was told that they
looked pretty much the same except that the pages that would not cooperate at
all might have slightly more age darkened paper. Since the variation occurs
in the same book I would hate to start scanning a book that started out okay
and then get to the middle of it and find out that I could not continue. If
I do scan one in its entirety I want to assure myself that I can correct any
difficult pages and finish the job, so I want to experiment some more
before I start. Does anyone have any advice on scanning an older mass market
paperback? I am using Open Book 6.0.
"Philosophers have merely
interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it." Karl
Marx
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