How to best scan a book into JPEG?

[lsquare]

I have the Canon CanoScan 9000F scanner. After thinking and debating whether to scan into JPEG or PDF first, I decided that I'm going to scan into JPEG first. Now I'm trying to figure out what are the optimal settings to use. I'm using the Canon MP Navigator EX software to scan. I've selected the magazine document type even though it's a book, but there are color graphics and images. I will avoid using Canon's OCR feature. Would you guys recommend that I let the software auto detect the document size? Ultimately I will OCR the JPEGs. Should I scan at 300dpi or higher? I've already tried out a few scans at 300dpi and the images seem really sharp, but I don't know if I should go higher or not if I want to OCR them with both OneNote or Acrobat X Professional. I think I read somewhere that the higher the dpi the better the OCR quality will be. Comments?

I've checked off the descreen setting to reduce moire, unsharp mask sharpening, reduce show-through, correct slanted document, and even the detect the orientation of text documents and rotate images options.

I'm also curious if there are other software that's worth using with my CanoScan 9000F? Like I said, I want to scan some of the pages of the book into JPEG first. I'm not sure if there are other software that's compatible with the CanoScan 9000F and produce higher quality images than the included software.

At some point, I would like to create a PDF file. I do have Adobe Acrobat X Professional. How would I create a PDF document, import the JPEGs, and then OCR them? If the OCR job isn't good, is there a way to manually assist the software and correct the mistakes?

Is it even possible to use Acrobat X with my scanner and scan into other formats beside PDF and utilize Acrobat's OCR technology?

Thanks.

 

[Charlie98]

As far as scanning, 300dpi is plenty... anything larger takes far more time and makes a correspondingly bigger file. Personally, I would try it at 200dpi first and see. I scan my normal and archival paperwork daily at 200dpi.

I have 2 Canon MF printers... both use Canon's MF Toolbox with has OCR functionality, I'm not familiar with your flatbed scanner or the toolboxes, sorry.

 

[dbcooper1]

Adobe Acrobat has been able to scan directly to pdf with OCR on the fly since at least version 8.

 

[corkyg]

It's a lot of work to scan a book, so why do extra work? Go PDF right from the scanner.

 

[Steltek]

Probably a stupid question, but have you checked to see if there is already an electronic version of your book available?

Unless your time is worth nothing, paying a few bucks for an electronic version would probably be worth considering.

 

[lsquare]

Probably a stupid question, but have you checked to see if there is already an electronic version of your book available?

Unless your time is worth nothing, paying a few bucks for an electronic version would probably be worth considering.

Thanks for the suggestion guys. I'm not looking to scan the whole book. I only intend to scan a section of it.

 

[tynopik]

what type of book are you scanning? (pure text, technical with graphics, color?)

do you mind saying what book it is?

why are you scanning it (what do you hope to do with it?)