One option: Take a digital photo of the document.

Not as nice and tidy as the scan, but it achieves the goal.

Chuck Piotrowski
Records Manager
CVPS


-----Original Message-----
From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Williams, Lucinda
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 3:47 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: "Unscanable" Documents

Hello,

We're in the process of scanning ordinances dating back to 1917 into our
document imaging system.  We've gotten as far back as the 1920's but due
to the browning of the paper used way back then, our scanned images are
too faint to read.  The "trying to make a darker reproduction on the
copy machine" trick hasn't worked either.  Does anyone have a suggestion
how we can get this document into electronic format?  We could just
retype the document for scanning purposes, but, since Ordinances are
legal papers, we wondered how we would certify that the re-typed
document was an official copy (if we can do that at all.)

Thanks in advance for all your suggestions!

~L

_____________________________________
Lucinda Williams, CMC
Deputy City Clerk / Records Supervisor
City of Brea (www.cityofbrea.net)
1 Civic Center Circle, Brea, CA  92821
714/990-7757


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