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I am scanning in pages from an old book so that I can recreate the font of this book, but the letters are pretty small and if I scan them in at 150 or 300 dpi I won't get the details needed to recreate this font, and a higher dpi with more details will be too large and my computer will crash.

So 1: How were books scanned and reprinted in (let's say) the 80's, that the prints have not lost quality with scanning (sure the letters are a bit smudged, but they aren't low resolution). So if I need to scan and retain the original quality, that seems to be my best shot, but how is that done?

And 2: Is there any technique in what to scan so that I won't (or just slightly) reduce the quality of the original pages?

REMEMBER, I am not scanning in a doc just to have it digitized, I need the full quality so that I can reconstruct a font from letters that are very small!!!

Zjamkeh
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You're looking for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. This is the process of converting an image into machine encoded text. There are many different software solutions for this, many of which are free. Once you have the machine encoded text, you can edit it as you please.

150 and certainly 300DPI should suffise quality wise.

If its just the specific font that is important, try and have some software or service (like https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ recognize it. Again, there are plenty of those available with a quick google search

Silbee
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