Problems with images on the Web

"Sheldon" wrote in message

I’m working with someone who’s scanning pages of her work (magazine articles) and posting them to the Web. The problem is that some of the articles are very difficult to read. Is there any way to convert these

jpeg

images so the text looks sharper? Scanning at higher resolutions doesn’t seem to help, as we still have to reduce the image to get it to fit on the Web page, and all the text is part of the jpg image.

There is a not so kosher way:
You’ll notice that your text looks OK when the image is viewed at 100,50 or 25%
By making screen shots you end up with something useable.

Stephan

are u scanning to OCR, then save as .pdf then as .jpg then unsharpen mask?

"Sheldon" wrote in message

I’m working with someone who’s scanning pages of her work (magazine articles) and posting them to the Web. The problem is that some of the articles are very difficult to read. Is there any way to convert these jpeg images so the text looks sharper? Scanning at higher resolutions doesn’t seem to help, as we still have to reduce the image to get it to fit on the Web page, and all the text is part of the jpg image.

Sheldon

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I’m working with someone who’s scanning pages of her work (magazine articles) and posting them to the Web. The problem is that some of the articles are very difficult to read. Is there any way to convert these jpeg images so the text looks sharper? Scanning at higher resolutions doesn’t seem to help, as we still have to reduce the image to get it to fit on the Web page, and all the text is part of the jpg image.

Sheldon

If its her work the printer should happily provide PDF’s

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"Sheldon" wrote in
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I’m working with someone who’s scanning pages of her work (magazine articles) and posting them to the Web.

Why is she scanning something she already has files for?

The problem is that some of
the articles are very difficult to read.

I’d imagine, especially since the scans would have screens in them.

Is there any way to convert
these jpeg images so the text looks sharper? Scanning at higher resolutions doesn’t seem to help, as we still have to reduce the image to get it to fit on the Web page, and all the text is part of the jpg image.

Can you post an example url? I have a funny feeling…

"Sheldon" posted:

I’m working with someone who’s scanning pages of her work (magazine articles) and posting them to the Web. The problem is that some of the articles are very difficult to read.

I’ve overcome this problem by photographing the printed page paragraph by paragraph and posting each paragraph in a separate jpeg.

Another possibility is to post a thumbnail with link to a (large) legible page. Maybe the large page could be a PDF?

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Thanks for all the replies.

Here are some URLs:

All of these are from the same site, and I’m viewing them with a screen resolution of 800×600. If I increase the resolution it helps a bit, but then I need a magnifying glass to see the print. Also, if I’m not mistake, she is scanning them with a filter to reduce the fact that the photos are screened.

http://www.dailywriter.net/writingsamples/default.asp?conten t=3&category=3

http://www.dailywriter.net/writingsamples/default.asp?conten t=4&category=6

http://www.dailywriter.net/writingsamples/default.asp?conten t=15&category=5

Sheldon

"Eric Gill" wrote in message

"Sheldon" wrote in
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I’m working with someone who’s scanning pages of her work (magazine articles) and posting them to the Web.

Why is she scanning something she already has files for?

The problem is that some of
the articles are very difficult to read.

I’d imagine, especially since the scans would have screens in them.

Is there any way to convert
these jpeg images so the text looks sharper? Scanning at higher resolutions doesn’t seem to help, as we still have to reduce the image to get it to fit on the Web page, and all the text is part of the jpg image.

Can you post an example url? I have a funny feeling…

BTW, I’m trying to convince her to use text-only links on the pages that are difficult to read, but she really wants to sharpen up the Web pages without doing that. I’m thinking this may be impossible, since we are not using text generated by the browser, and if we increase scan resolution readers will have to scroll around to see an entire page.

Sheldon

"Eric Gill" wrote in message

"Sheldon" wrote in
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I’m working with someone who’s scanning pages of her work (magazine articles) and posting them to the Web.

Why is she scanning something she already has files for?

The problem is that some of
the articles are very difficult to read.

I’d imagine, especially since the scans would have screens in them.

Is there any way to convert
these jpeg images so the text looks sharper? Scanning at higher resolutions doesn’t seem to help, as we still have to reduce the image to get it to fit on the Web page, and all the text is part of the jpg image.

Can you post an example url? I have a funny feeling…

"Sheldon" wrote in
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Thanks for all the replies.

Here are some URLs:

All of these are from the same site, and I’m viewing them with a screen resolution of 800×600. If I increase the resolution it helps a bit, but then I need a magnifying glass to see the print. Also, if I’m not mistake, she is scanning them with a filter to reduce the fact that the photos are screened.

Allright.

First problem – they are overcompressed.

Here’s a similar page I did:

http://www.upclose.ws/sept00/sept00lead.html

This compares them at 300%:

http://www.nightskycreative.com/overcompression.gif

Second, scanning those pages didn’t do a bit of good. Compare the hairlines on our two examples, especially the page with Batman.

Third, scrolling is not evil – if it’s vertical. My page images are 740 pixels wide. This is pretty readable and fits side to side on most browsers.

Fourth, it’s actually a hell of a lot more time consuming to scan instead of rasterize a single PDF file. It’s even better if you know your scripting well and can let it rasterize each page individually and save them out at a preset JPEG compression with a standardized, incrementing filename. The UpClose magazine example you’re looking at took a hair over seven minutes – for all 24 pages.

Can’t get to the second link you provided, but I can definitely see the difference in the first one. Very sharp and clear.

Thanks for the advice, and I’ll use it to try and resolve this issue.

Sheldon

"Eric Gill" wrote in message

"Sheldon" wrote in
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Thanks for all the replies.

Here are some URLs:

All of these are from the same site, and I’m viewing them with a screen resolution of 800×600. If I increase the resolution it helps a bit, but then I need a magnifying glass to see the print. Also, if I’m not mistake, she is scanning them with a filter to reduce the fact that the photos are screened.

Allright.

First problem – they are overcompressed.

Here’s a similar page I did:

http://www.upclose.ws/sept00/sept00lead.html

This compares them at 300%:

http://www.nightskycreative.com/overcompression.gif

Second, scanning those pages didn’t do a bit of good. Compare the

hairlines

on our two examples, especially the page with Batman.

Third, scrolling is not evil – if it’s vertical. My page images are 740 pixels wide. This is pretty readable and fits side to side on most browsers.

Fourth, it’s actually a hell of a lot more time consuming to scan instead of rasterize a single PDF file. It’s even better if you know your

scripting

well and can let it rasterize each page individually and save them out at

a

preset JPEG compression with a standardized, incrementing filename. The UpClose magazine example you’re looking at took a hair over seven

minutes –

for all 24 pages.