Posted 02/06/2015 7:23 pm
Not much to add to what 'echizento' said.
But re scanning:
My scanner saves as JPG (check if you can set you scanning software to that). Also don't waste space but put the frame as narrow as possible around the coin. My standard setting is for 300 dpi and 24-bit colours but you can keep the size of the scanned image smaller (in bytes) if you use 150 dpi and 8-bit grayscale (which for identification purposes should be plenty.
But re scanning:
My scanner saves as JPG (check if you can set you scanning software to that). Also don't waste space but put the frame as narrow as possible around the coin. My standard setting is for 300 dpi and 24-bit colours but you can keep the size of the scanned image smaller (in bytes) if you use 150 dpi and 8-bit grayscale (which for identification purposes should be plenty.
