"Carl Navarro" > wrote in message
...
> Here's the deal. My mom passed away last month and I got all of her
> recipie books. I don't have a clue what to do, so maybe someone here
> can advise me.
>
> I can scan each page, about a 3-5 minute job, but I don't know if I
> should or how to index them. I have posted 3 sample scans on my
> website. One is Yorkshire pudding, one is a couple of Frozen fruit
> salad recipies, along with dips and stuff like that, and one is from
> her cookie recipies page, with Orange Frosted Pumpkin cookies as the
> main reason I scanned it :-)
>
> Anyway, please grab them if you can and tell me what you think. As
> far as I can tell, they were collected from 1945 to the early '50's.
> Some of them show the (Chicago) Herald-American test kitchen on the
> bottom. She kept them in old brown College notebooks and, yes, some
> of them are pasted 16 recipies per page into these books.
>
> I'd like to scan them and save them to pdf files for my family. Or
> don't they do that anymore with the internet?
>
> Here's the link :http://public.carl.airpost.net/food
>
>
> Carl Navarro

I like Wayne's idea with the program he uses. I can totally see why you'd
want copies of these recipes your mom saved. May I make one suggestion and
you may have thought of it yourself... I put a piece of paper over the top
of the scanned object. That way the negative feeder on the lid of my
scanner isn't included with my scan. Just makes it easier for me if I don't
have to crop things like that out later. Especially if one is scanning a
lot it saves a step.

Good luck and enjoy the memories,

Lynne