A few scanning tips Wayne Fulton has put together an extensive page offering scanning tips and hints, fundamentals and other general scanning information to help beginners get off to a quick start with their flatbed scanners.
Calibrate Your Scanner The Secret to Good Scanning: why and how to calibrate your scanner.
Descreen or Removing the Moiré pattern Because of the overlapping dots, photos scanned from a magazine or newspaper will display a Moiré pattern. Descreen allows you to remove the moiré pattern.
Do You Really Need All That Resolution? It is quite possible that depending on your application, you could produce some very pleasing and fully professional results with less investment.
Dynamic range: 24 bit or 36 bit color depth in scanners The first thing to remember is that bit depth and dynamic range are NOT the same thing. It is going to sound much the same, but it's not. That difference is covered in this article.
How to scan a book Scanning a book is very different from scanning other types of documents. The tips in this article should be of great help.
How To Scan a Negative If you still have negatives lying around .. this article can help.
How To Scan a Print Many photographers who still shoot on film now routinely print by making scans which are then either printed at a lab or using their own inkjet printer.
Interpolated Resolution If you're confused by those scanner specs, you'd do well to read this article..
Introduction to Scanning This article contain basic suggestions and guidelines for anyone who's just getting started with scanning.
Optical Character Recognition Is the process of turning a picture of words (such as a scan of a typed letter) into an editable document that you can open and use in your desktop publishing software, word processor, or other text editor. This can really save you from having to re-type documents.
Scanning Line Art Whether you intend to scan line art for use 'as is' .. or to modify it or to use as a template for tracing or redrawing, there are specific ways you can get the best image and just the right look.
Scanning Tips for Web Images This method is meant to help you get the best image possible from your photos for online use.
Scanning Transparencies and Reflective Art Almost every printed project contains some type of image other than type, whether a photograph or graphic symbol, requiring a "scan" to convert it into digital format.
Simple Ways to Get Better Scans This article describes and explains a common standard technique to correct and improve the contrast of the image, which enhances colors too. It is applicable to scanning both prints and film, and to editing later too.