I have a large schematic for my EM. It is has some discoloration, tears, and is pretty fragile. I am hoping to preserve it by scanning it.
I am afraid to move it all around a flatbed scanner so I have tried taking pictures of sections and then matching them together, but it just is not coming out that well.
Anyone else found a good trick for getting a good .pdf of theirs?
I know its not exactly what you are asking but I like Hard Copy. So, I just tape things back together and then go to Kinkos (FedEx Office) and run it through their rolling scanner and spit out another full sheet copy (or 2 or 3....). Usually costs around $5 each.
You can scan it with a large format scanner, or a portable Map scanner like the HP4600 that you lay on top of the paper.
Photoshop will merge all the scans together for you using the command called Photomerge.
Don't be surprised if you can buy a used HP4600 cheaper than you can get 2 pages scanned a Kinkos
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