I hope to show how difficult it can be to copy and clean-up a manual.

The best way is to remove the binding and copy them on a flat bed scanner, I have also copied by laying the manual on the scanner, a real pain. I like to use the sheet feeder if possible and let it do the double sided copying. I have copied it in using Adobe Acrobat but I prefer to use Paint Shop Pro X6. I have wore out two Epson printer copiers and now I am using a new Epson XP-860.

Another problem is page bleed-thru which leaves a background that can be hard to remove. Paint Shop Pro for the most part does a good job at background subtraction. Bleed-thru is a big problem when dealing with color such as my REMark magazines, not so much on the page itself but the color bleed-thru, very difficult to remove.

This is a typical page of a manual, it is from the SB-104A assembly manual I copied. The individual was left handed, he used ink and everything is exaggerated. I have copied manuals that have no marks, best possible, manuals with pencil marks, easy to erase, finally small in or in this case exaggerated in marks.

This is the result of about an hours work. Take into consideration the manual had 200 pages and about 60% contain assembly instructions like this. This manual will have about 20 hour of work that includes the copy process.