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Scan-and-Store Process: Scanning Supervisor

• Retrieve request forms for scanned materials

• Open converted PDF files

• Evaluate image quality of converted PDF files

-Scanned article matches request form citation

-Completeness, no clipped margins

-Legibility, especially footnotes and references

-Minimal skewing

-Clarity of grayscale or halftone images

-Appropriate margins, no excessive white space

• Crop fingertips, margin lines, and so on, missed by Epic 3000 scanner software

-Retrieve TIFF image file

-Mask unwanted areas

-Resave TIFF image file

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-Repeat PDF conversion

-Evaluate image quality of revised PDF file

• Return unacceptable scans to scanner operator for rescan or correction

• Evaluate, correct, and expand entries in request forms

• Forward corrected PDF files to the database

• Delete TIFF image files from conversion workstation

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Preferred Citation: Ekman, Richard, and Richard E. Quandt, editors Technology and Scholarly Communication. Berkeley, Calif Pittsburgh?]:  University of California Press Published in association with the Andrew K. Mellon Foundation,  c1999 1999. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5w10074r/