I'm pretty good at using scanners. I have scanned and cropped and helped customers do it, too. The most challenging was scanning pictures for a couple entering the Green Card Lottery. The pictures had to be exactly the right size to the pixel before the government website would accept it. Figuring that out was tricky. I've used Optical Character Recognition software before, too. Years ago it was almost not worth it because you had to do so much editing. Now if the page is in a standard font without tables or fancy formatting or scribbles in pen or pencil, it works quite well.
I scanned an old postcard of the Nathaniel Holmes Bishop Memorial Library that I bought on Ebay several years ago. When I bought it my office was temporarily in the Bishop basement during the renovation of the Main Library. You can just see the two little windows that brought a little sunlight down by my chair. Actually, the basement was fixed up very nicely for us as a work area. Except for the running back and forth to be on time to the reference desk, there were many advantages to not being in the Main building during construction.
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