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Side Project: Magazine Archiving

September 14th, 2010
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  1. dwyane
    September 17th, 2010 at 15:20 | #1
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    I have been giving this some thought. What type of Scanner are you using?

  2. Shaun
    September 17th, 2010 at 18:56 | #2
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    I have a Brother MFC-440CN. It’s a Multi-function printer/scanner/copier/fax one. Scanner works pretty well on it.

  3. chriStian B
    September 22nd, 2010 at 22:37 | #3
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    I too was doing this. Although mine so far is more pedestrian – in that 20+ years of MR, RMC, ans Nscale are going into sleeves by month – eliminating ads and non-applicable articles. The one thing I would offer is to scan the front cover and title page and give each month its own folder. I often am able to locate some obsure article just because I recall other articles or the cover pic… If you want extra credit also establish an “index” by subject – so if for example you want to look at an article on scenery – you can just pull up the scenery list and locate what year/month folder to access quickly. * BTW it is a chore isn’t it! – not for the faint of heart!! *

  4. Shaun
    September 23rd, 2010 at 06:12 | #4
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    That’s just what I’m doing chriStian, scanning each issue with the cover and sorting by year and month.

    I’ve also put together an article index by subject and issue to locate things quickly. Here’s some pics of the magazines on my iPad.

    Article Index:

    Magazine listing by year:

    Magazine Front Cover:

    But it yes, it’s quite the chore. I’m about halfway through 2009 right now. I’m scanning the full MRR magazines now, excluding the News/Announcements, Mailbag, Product reviews, and full ad pages. Takes about 30mins or so to get a full magazine scanned and then cropped. VueScan’s auto-functions really help with the process though.

  5. George
    September 28th, 2010 at 10:14 | #5
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    Shaun,
    I have been following your progress. The scanning idea is a great idea.
    I have been figuring out how to do this and putting them into PDF is smart. Did your brother all in one printer/copy/scanner come with PDF software? I would think I would need Abode Acrobat 9 not the Adobe reader. How fast can your Brother scanner do pages? I was wondering if there are other choices that might do this faster (without the huge cost!)
    Thanks,
    George
    New Hampshire, USA

  6. Shaun
    September 28th, 2010 at 14:44 | #6
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    The brother printer does include some scanning software, but it only let’s you scan one page per PDF. The VueScan software (windows & mac) has a Multi-page PDF option. This lets you easily scan multiple pages from a magazine and then save into a single PDF when done scanning. Really simple to do. VueScan is $40 I think and there is a Windows version.

    http://www.hamrick.com/

    I wanna say right now it takes about 30-45 mins to scan a magazine.

    I also use PDF Shrink (also a windows and Mac app) to compress the PDF files by about 50%. You get a little bit of quality loss, but a much smaller sized PDF file. PDF Shrink is $35 and the outputted files work great on the iPad.

    http://www.apagoinc.com/prod_home.php?prod_id=30

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