Uses for a scanner
My flatbed scanner is old by today's standards, I guess. It's an HP Scanjet PrecisionScan Pro 3.0. Will take up to 11x18 inches paper size on the flatbed. Is comfortable with an opened book as much as two inches thick. I've had it since early 2003.
I have the attachment for scanning film negatives and slides. I have the document feeder attachment.
I bought the scanner in order to scan to my hard drive a book I had written in PFSWrite on our old dual-floppy IBM, in 1986. Of course, my Compaq Presario 440 could not accomodate those 5 1/4 inch floppies. So, I printed from the IBM machine to my little Epson daisy-wheel printer. And scanned those pages with the HP Scanjet, which came bundled with ReadIris.
ReadIris gave me quite a clean-up job to do in Word, but it was still easier than retyping the entire book.
I have scanned in hundreds of old family snapshots, but there would be thousands yet to do, if I were to try to put all the old photos in.
Reading this thread has has given me an idea to use LightZone to try to clean up some old b/w snapshots made in the 1920s . My parents, very early in their marriage.
I hadn't even thought until this minute of the possibility of perhaps darkening the pale images a bit and increasing the contrast.
I'm going to experiment right now with this.
Mary