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Try these creative scanning projects and tips on scanning 3D objects, books, and other articles. Learn how to scan stamps and coins. Find tips and tutorials specifically for document and image scanning in connection with genealogy or scrapbooking or for use in email. Get ideas for scanning photos and using them creatively.
Scanning 12x12 Layouts
Scrapbooking Guide Rebecca Ludens and her forum members share their favorite ways to scan oversized scrapbook pages.
Scanning & Restoring
Genealogy Guide Kimberly Powell helps you breathe new life into old faded or torn family photos.
Scanning Coins
Scan your collectible coins with tips from Stamps / Coins Guide Eduardo De Resendes.
Scanning DPI for Email & Web
There's no need to overdo the pixels if the images are for use on the Web or meant to be sent by email. Graphics Software Guide Sue Chastain explains.
Backgrounds from Scans
Laura McCanna shares tips on creating backgrounds from scans of 3D objects on a flatbed scanner.
Creative Scanning Projects
From Hewlett Packard -- ideas for Web pages, email, family albums and more.
Experiments in Scanning 3D Objects
See the results of scanning 3D objects on flatbed scanners. Pick up tips and ideas.
How to Scan a Book
Special considerations and methods needed to scan a book; from Proportional Reading 1996.
Scanning 3D Objects
The FontSite describes a scanning project involving 3D objects with a flatbed scanner.
Scanning oversized and odd size materials
At Graphics Unleashed, Peter McCormick shows how to use your standard size flatbed scanner to scan oversized artwork and 3D objects successfully.
Slide Scanning
How to scan 35mm slides on a flatbed scanner.
Stereo Scans
Create stereoscopic images with your flatbed scanner. Here's how.
Use Your Scanner as a Camera
PCPhoto Magazine describes how to use your flatbed scanner to "photograph" 3D objects, what they call "scan-o-grams."
Using your scanner as a copy machine
OCR and lineart scanning tips from Wayne Fulton.

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