Scanning Techniques for Business and Home

MP4 | Video: 540p | Duration: 3:08:09 | English | Subtitles: VTT | 413.5 MB

In this course, photographer and graphics professional Taz Tally shows home and business users how to get the best results from their scanners. The course begins with a look at scanning essentials, including how to clean and care for a scanner, choose scanning software, and understanding concepts such as resolution and file format. Next, Taz uses the basic mode that most scanning software provides to show how to perform an array of common scanning jobs, from scanning photos and artwork to capturing text using optical character recognition. Three real-world projects are also included, which show the process of scanning something and then editing and sharing the results.

Topics include:

Caring for a scanner

Understanding pixels and resolution

Choosing scanning software

Scanning logos and line art

Scanning grayscale vs. color

Scanning for print

Converting documents to editable text with graphics

Scanning images for use on websites

Converting images and documents to PDFs

Emailing and faxing scanned images

Creating PDFs for OCR

Automating the scan process