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how to scan a marriage certificate
« on: Monday 12 January 15 12:10 GMT (UK) »
Hi
I have an a4 scanner, but as you know marriage certificates are larger.

Can anyone help in telling me how to scan or best way to scan it to just less that a4?

Thanks
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Re: how to scan a marriage certificate
« Reply #1 on: Monday 12 January 15 12:25 GMT (UK) »
If you're using a flat-bed scanner, then you could try positioning the certificate so that the unimportant bits (e.g. the side margins) aren't on the glass.

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Re: how to scan a marriage certificate
« Reply #2 on: Monday 12 January 15 12:39 GMT (UK) »
If you have a photo editing programme, you can scan the certificate in two sections, making sure you have the Middle section in both scans, you can then use the photo editing to stitch the two halves together. I have done this many times for long certificates. This is useful for scanning any large document.

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Re: how to scan a marriage certificate
« Reply #3 on: Monday 12 January 15 13:00 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Jebber on Monday 12 January 15 12:39 GMT (UK)
If you have a photo editing programme, you can scan the certificate in two sections, making sure you have the Middle section in both scans, you can then use the photo editing to stitch the two halves together. I have done this many times for long certificates. This is useful for scanning any large document.

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Re: how to scan a marriage certificate
« Reply #4 on: Monday 12 January 15 21:45 GMT (UK) »
An alternative: take a high res digital photo of it and crop off the part you don't need with the photo editing programme.

When printing, tell the programme to scale to A4 size.

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Re: how to scan a marriage certificate
« Reply #5 on: Monday 12 January 15 22:50 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Little Nell on Monday 12 January 15 21:45 GMT (UK)
An alternative: take a high res digital photo of it and crop off the part you don't need with the photo editing programme.

When printing, tell the programme to scale to A4 size.

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Thank you Nell I will have a go
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Re: how to scan a marriage certificate
« Reply #6 on: Monday 12 January 15 23:06 GMT (UK) »
Or take it to the library and get a couple of copies done for a few pence and you will get the whole cert. copied.
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Re: how to scan a marriage certificate
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 13 January 15 11:35 GMT (UK) »
And at the library you can probably reduce the size to A4 on the copier
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