On 7/14/05, Jon Niehof <jon_niehof@yahoo.com> wrote:
--- Jon Noring <jon@noring.name> wrote: I'm not willing to say "yes, do it this way!" and support changing existing workflow (which was designed to produce PG e-texts) to facilitate your project. But I'm willing to send up the work I've done if it could be useful--a *lot* of CP'ers would love to donate their page scans. Why not start from that and see how it grows?
I don't usually retain full grayscale or color page images because of space / workflow issues. I generally do a full pass in grayscale directly into Finereader, which is set to convert it to black and white; Finereader's thresholding is usually pretty good (and doesn't dither, unlike my scanner driver.) I will then go back and scan any illustrations at 600 DPI, more if needed (very seldom). I did scan a few of the Beatrix Potter books completely in color and someone else has posted them to an album (unfortunately on a site with several sex related books; I'm sure censorship programs are or will block it when it becomes noticed.) Most of the page images used and archived at DP are a compromise between image quality and size; many proofers (and many CPs) do not use any form of broadband. But they are all archived somewhere, and were good enough to do the original proofing, if not as nice as My Antonia. However, the squirrels are even busier than usual; this is not a good time to ask for a dump of the project archives. R C