GRAPHIC SERVICES -

Scanning

Image Scanning - convert images from books, photographs and slides into digital images for use in publication, PowerPoint, or Web publishing. Contact Elwood Mills 554-6903, emills@scu.edu

Cost: no charge
Time required: one day for small jobs
File output: GIF, JPG
Scanning accuracy: Scanning results are
    variable, sometimes the copy is better than
    the original.
Best originals: Flat materials (photographic
    prints) are best. Negatives and slides scan
    well but not as well as prints. Originals
    larger than 8"x10" are scanned in sections
    and spliced together.

Text Scanning for Word Processing - convert text from books into Word, WordPerfect, Ascii. and other text file formats. Contact Dan Maloney 554-4520, dmaloney@scu.edu

Cost: no charge for jobs up to one hour
Time required: one day
File output: Word, WordPerfect, Excel,
     Lotus,Quattro Pro, Ascii
Scanning accuracy: 98% accuracy. Spell
    checking and some reformatting is always
    required. Pictures and drawings in the
    original should be scanned separately as
    graphics.

Scanning for ERES - convert text from books into Word, WordPerfect, Ascii. and other text file formats.  Contact Dan Maloney 554-4520, dmaloney@scu.edu

Cost: no charge for jobs up to one hour
Time required: one day
File output: GIF, JPG, PDF

Last updated August 30, 2001