From: antispam@fricas.org   
      
   Don Y  wrote:   
   >   
   > I've learned to become less "discriminating" in my collections.  As long as   
   > I can *read* the content, it's good enough for me (given that the   
   > alternative was *paper*!).   
      
   Well, I can read low quality text, but I read faster if quality is   
   better.  Sometimes it is hard to decide if there is a speck or   
   a dot (or comma, apostrophe etc) on a page.  And if you scan   
   at larger quantity you probably do not want to proofread each   
   page, so either you have generous margin for possible disturbances   
   or you risk badly scanned pages.   
      
   Other thing is OCR: it seem to work quite well with actual   
   text (as opposed to mixture containing also figures and formula)   
   when scan quality is high enough.  OCR is valuable if only to do   
   searches.  Scanning at low/medium quality throws out information   
   that is hard or impossible to restore.   
      
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