Posting Documents.

kusuchi · Posting Documents.

How do you post documents to the forum. Is there any other way besides taking photos and uploading them to photobucket?

Could not do that with the Marklin Instructions, the text is so small and faint it would not be legible.

Thanks,

Mamodman123

Scan them with a scanner?

I don't see another way

johnreid

The few that I have done, I scanned. Photos of documents just dont seem to ever come out well.

IF you do not have a scanner, I bet you know someone who does. Mine only cost $24 and works great. I also have one that I paid hundreds for 8 years ago and it isnt as nice as the $24 one.

tmuir

Yes scanning is the best way but if you own a high res digital camera and are careful you can take photos and they will be ok.
You really need to take the photo in natural light so the flash doesn't go off else it bleaches out the writing.

kusuchi

johnreid

The contrast is still too off for a DSLR in comparison to a scanner, and yes, jpg would be good. Jpegs can be made into a PDF file for a user, but if good scans are made they could be useful for others in the future. Plus they would make educational reading for those who never will have the joy of ownership.
Also 300 dpi is sometimes too much too, if you can, experiment with various resolutions, many documents look great at 150

flywheel61

I would suggest taking them in colour, especially of the print in small and the colour of the background parer isn't pure white.

If you have a programme like photoshop you can play with the brightness and contrast to get the best out of the pages. I have a very good camera which will give me a resolution of 300 DPI at an image size of 16 x 20 inches. Even with a less expensive camera you should be able to increase the image size to say, fullscap without too much loss of definition.

The main problem in using a camera will be that the edges of the page will be slightly curved as the lens is designed to cover a wide range of circumstances.

I think someone else has mentioned it but you could also try your scanner using the colour setting and again some adjustments in a 'shop type programme.

What ever way you do it, I think it still has to come through photobucket.

Best of luck,

Cheers

Chris

Wallace

I'd just scan them. That's the easiest and how I did all the documents I posted in the Members file sharing area.

That way you get the right aspect ratio if someone wants to print them.

Only thing is, with my scanner is if I scan, then print, the document is bigger than the original.
So after scanning it, I measure the original, crop the scanned image to the original size, save it as a jpeg and it's fine.

johnreid

I agree, when scanning, scan them as color photos. Black and white, text, and gray scale dont do as good a job scanning. A good jpeg is better than trying to mess with OCR software. There are many reasons why a photo of a document doesnt work as well. Lighting, the inability to get a lens perfectly parallel to the document, and the curvature of the lens, a Macro/Micro ( I believe Nikon still calls theirs Micro ) lens is "flat field" whereas a regular lens is curved to more accurately duplicate the way the eye sees a scene.