The Procedure Of Yearbook Scanning

By Marie Ward


A yearbook is one of the most important documents that a student takes away after completing school. It contains all of the staff and students of the school. As years go by, one is still able to remember their classmates and the school in general. When these yearbooks are made, there is usually one original and several copies are made. Below are some of the processes of yearbook scanning.

There are two main kinds of scanners in the industry. They are the flatbed scanner and the feed sheet scanner. Both are very efficient only that the feed sheet is much faster than the flatbed. As the names suggest, the flatbed has a flat scanner and can scan anything not necessarily paper. The feed sheet is one that you have to put the pages in one at a time.

In case you are using the flatbed scanner, you need to place the desired pages on the scanning screen and push them gently on the screen to avoid leaving out important information. With the feed sheet, you will have to dismantle the book and acquire the separate pages. You may do it yourself or take it to a copying shop.

Remove the binding from the book. This detaching the book from the cover. It may be either hardcover or paperback. Whichever one it is, there are ways to remove them with ease. With the hardcover, you will need a utility knife to separate the papers while with the paperback, use a warm blow drier on the spine and pull at the pages gently until they come off.

After the glue is off, the pages are no longer bound. To avoid losing them or getting them mixed up, it is best to dismantle them further into groups of 20 pages or less. This helps to avoid the confusion. Then go through each small group checking the edges for glue. If you find any, gently scrape it off to avoid it causing damage to the scanner.

You will need the paper pot software. Since you are storing the scanned pages on your computer, you will need for them to be placed systematically. This software and any other of the same nature are precisely for this purpose. They store the document using formats such as PDF, TIFF, among many others. PDF is often recommended as it is hardly altered especially by accident.

At times, we find that the books we are reading or looking through having some blank pages. Often we do not know why the pages are blank but it is recommended that as you scan the document, you should also include the blank pages. If not, leave a clear note indicating the pages were left out and redo the page numbers to ensure efficiency.

The assumption here is that you are using a feed sheet scanner. It is advisable to feed it one page at a time. Doing more than this may wear out the roller parts of the machinery. This may be expensive to fix and therefore, one at a time is best.




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