Wednesday, June 6, 2018

The Procedure Of Yearbook Scanning

By Marie Ward


In the western world, every level of school except maybe for pre-school has a yearbook. This is a book that is produced every year by the institution of learning and contains pictures of both the staff and the students. The copies are then handed out to every student and a copy is kept in the library. However, only one book is made and the rest are copies. Below are the steps to yearbook scanning.

The first step is to choose the kind of scanner that will be best for the job and of course one that you can afford. There are mainly two main types of scanners; the flatbed scanner and the sheet feed scanner. The flatbed scanner is more affordable and can scan anything including books. For a sheet feed scanner, you can only scan individual pages.

Every scanner is different. Most people go for the flatbed scanner because you only have to flip through the pages and press them on to the screen for the content to be copied. With the feed sheet, however, you will need to dismantle the book. As the name suggests, you can only feed this copier a page at a time for the best results.

Remove the binding from the book. This detaching the book from the cover. It may be either hardcover or paperback. Whichever one it is, there are ways to remove them with ease. With the hardcover, you will need a utility knife to separate the papers while with the paperback, use a warm blow drier on the spine and pull at the pages gently until they come off.

After the glue is off, the pages are no longer bound. To avoid losing them or getting them mixed up, it is best to dismantle them further into groups of 20 pages or less. This helps to avoid the confusion. Then go through each small group checking the edges for glue. If you find any, gently scrape it off to avoid it causing damage to the scanner.

You will need the paper pot software. Since you are storing the scanned pages on your computer, you will need for them to be placed systematically. This software and any other of the same nature are precisely for this purpose. They store the document using formats such as PDF, TIFF, among many others. PDF is often recommended as it is hardly altered especially by accident.

Scan all of the pages. Including the blank ones. Do not neglect to do so simply because they are blank. But in the event that they are left out in the scanning, indicate on the previous pages that they are missing to avoid confusion while going through the book. If skipped, check to see the pages are in order to avoid shady work.

For the feed sheet scanner, put one page at a time so the scanner gets the two sides of the page. You will also be able to avoid any sort of malfunctioning. The same is done for the flatbed only you have to flip the page yourself.




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