Black and white or grayscale to scan handwritten notes

[macgrl]

Hello all

I am wanting to convert my handwritten research notes from paper to an electronic form to save space in my office. And so I have access to them on my iPad

The majority of them are handwritten in black felt tip pen on white or yellow / legal pads.

I wish to store them as PDFs and don't need to have OCR etc. What is the best setting to use.

I have scanned some in black and white and it seems quite legible. Would using greyscale for hand writing be better? And just use b and w for typed documents?

 

[inscrewtable]

Hello all

I am wanting to convert my handwritten research notes from paper to an electronic form to save space in my office. And so I have access to them on my iPad

The majority of them are handwritten in black felt tip pen on white or yellow / legal pads.

I wish to store them as PDFs and don't need to have OCR etc. What is the best setting to use.

I have scanned some in black and white and it seems quite legible. Would using greyscale for hand writing be better? And just use b and w for typed documents?

Better for what? If you are not concerned about getting the absolute smallest possible size then you are the best judge of what is better. I would say greyscale and then adjust the contrast to suit.

 

[snberk103]

You could just go ahead and try a few variations, eh? Only you can tell which will be easier to read.

 

[Weaselboy]

Hello all

I am wanting to convert my handwritten research notes from paper to an electronic form to save space in my office. And so I have access to them on my iPad

The majority of them are handwritten in black felt tip pen on white or yellow / legal pads.

I wish to store them as PDFs and don't need to have OCR etc. What is the best setting to use.

I have scanned some in black and white and it seems quite legible. Would using greyscale for hand writing be better? And just use b and w for typed documents?

I always scan handwritten notes in BW at 150DPI and it is more than clear enough for anything I need and gives me a fairly small file size per PDF.

 

[macgrl]

Thanks for the replies..I have checked the scanning options on my brother all-in-one and there isn't a grayscale option..just text, black and white, color.

What is text for? verses black and white?

 

[snberk103]

Thanks for the replies..I have checked the scanning options on my brother all-in-one and there isn't a grayscale option..just text, black and white, color.

What is text for? verses black and white?

Why don't you try it and see?