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I was wondering this as well. If you look at the green border around the certs, the border on your note is distinctly different than mine and I would think that they should be similar.

Scanner software output settings can make a difference. My software (VueScan) has 8 different output settings (9 if you count manual). Here's the exact same scan of a 1928 $1 LTN (before I crop and re-arrange as in my other postings) saved with each of the 8 output settings...

Auto


Flourescent


Landscape


Neutral


Night


Portrait


Tungsten


White Balance


As you can see, they don't all look the same (and to my eyes NONE of them look EXACTLY like the note in hand). I could play around with the manual setting to try and get the scan to look exactly like the note in hand, but the benefit of this seems small to me. So, I just keep the scanner software set to white balance, as it looks close enough. White balance is critical in digital photography, so I figure it should be just as important in a digital scan and leave it at that.

CelticKnot,

That has to do with the brightness setting in the software. In VueScan, this setting goes from .25 (dark) to 4 (bright and washed out) with a default setting of 1.

Here's the previous scan, but this time saved with a brightness setting of 1.96



as compared to the previous (setting of 1)



I just leave this setting at its default setting of 1. Once again, in my eyes NEITHER of these .JPEGs look EXACTLY like the note in hand.

I guess the point of all these scans is just that digital images can be manipulated (BIG surprise there). I figure that the software has already been optimized for most situations and so just leave it at its default settings.

Coinfrog,

I haven't used the built in W10 scanning software for sometime. It quit working with my scanner (Canon Imageclass MF4150) when W10 was updated to some version or other some time ago (and that's when I bought the VueScan software). Since you said you're using the W10 software, I decided to go ahead and give it a shot and lo and behold it is once again working Another update must have corrected whatever got broke in the previous update

So, here is the same note that I've been comparing scans with, but this time scanned with the W10 scanning software



Yet again, a different look to the scan, BUT I will say that this one probably looks the closest to the note in hand. Maybe I'll switch back to the W10 software since it's working for me once again

jimbucks,

Nice notes

Looks like your new all-in-one scanner is working a-ok to me. The only thing I'd recommend is that you put a piece of dark (black works great, but anything but white works pretty good) over the note when you scan it. It will stop the bleed through of the other side of the note in the scan.

Great looking notes folks! They all have the beautiful "pop" of red from days gone by

Do any of you use a document scanner to scan your notes? I just ran a couple through my Fujitsu scanner and didn't see any creases or marks of any kind. But still I'm wary of using it to scan pristine notes of value.

TIA

Yes, A.K.A. Sheet fed scanner. No flatbed.

Absolutely.