Image and Document Scanning
Our Workstations
Media Services has four Epson 8.5in x 11in flatbed scanners that can handle photographic prints and printed matter as well as negatives, slides or transparencies. All workstations may also be used for OCR (Optical Character Recognition) text scanning. This process allows users to turn scanned documents into a file with editable text. Though the scanners are connected to Windows computers, the files created are compatible with Macintosh computers as well.
All workstations are loaded with Adobe Photoshop Elements digital image editing software and are connected to a color laser printer.
In addition, our workstations are now equiped to handle basic video digitization, editing and output. Users can either use Windows Movie Maker or ULead Video Studio 10 to turn their video projects into DVDs or digital video files.
There is also one Macintosh video workstation, loaded with Final Cut Studio 5, a high-end video editing suite where users can digitize, edit, and output professional-quality files and create customized DVDs, complete with menus.
Files can be saved to a USB flash drive, copied to a CD-R/RW disk or a DVD+R/RW disk (on two of the workstations), or sent over the Loyola data network via an e-mail attachment or using FTP.
Our graphics workstations are located in the media carrels across from the Reference Desk and are available to all members of the Loyola community on a first-come, first-served basis. Users have up to one hour per session, unless no one else is waiting.
Media Services also loans digital still cameras to members of the Loyola community.
