PDF File Mgmt. Question

Posted by Ken
Mar 1, 2021 at 11:15 PM

James Thompson wrote:
I concur with the general response you’ve received. Paperport is the
>perennial standard; haven’t seen a new competitor of note in recent
>years though I haven’t been looking, but it’s probably good enough.
>Especially if it comes with your OCR software.
> >300 DPI is the bare minimum scan density you should set for any kind of
>acceptable OCR read. 600 DPI probably not necessary, and with some dirty
>scans 300 can actually clean things up a bit. If you’re scanning a
>poor-quality print yield will be low anyhow but extraneous smudges or
>non-intentional “ink” on the page can confuse the OCR software and
>sometimes I’ve found 300 DPI will reject the flotsam.

This sounds good. Thanks for confirming.

—Ken