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Digitizing Old Magazines?
"I have a lot of old video game magazines, they're nice for playing 'classic games' because a lot of classics are impossible without the manual, and hard without a magazine (the magazine obviously negates the need for a manual usually). But they'd get damaged with a flatbed scanner, and digital cameras are hard to set up right for capturing old magazines. I know that old documents are digitally archived with very high-res cameras..."
So, the question is, what is the best way to capture all the information in old magazines in digital format? Does anyone have a home-built rig taking after the angled-pair-of-scanners setup that Project Gutenburg uses?
...this is probably the result of a "compromise" between you and your wife, because those old mags are taking up too much shelf space?
Rent a monestary. It's slow, but it'll add some value to your magazines.
Europeans have no moral, ethical or legal obligation to pay for anything developed and sold by an American company.
Thems is invasion words.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
You put as many photos as can fit on your flatbed scanner (no need to straighten them perfectly), scan the photos, and then click on File --> Automate --> Crop and Straighten Photos - this will break up all the scanned photos into individual files, arrange them so they are straight, after which you can then edit and save each one./i.
After scanning in nearly 7000 photos using Photoshop CS... how come no one ever tells me about these kind of things?
*facepalm*