General

Overall looking for adherence to technical specs, completeness and consistency.  A general practice is for the person conducting the quality review not to be the same person who performed the actual scanning as it helps to have a fresh set of eyes on things. However another approach is to wait a period between scanning work and QC review.

Check list

• Check resolution is at 400 ppi

• Scanned at 24 bit depth

• AdobeRGB1998 color profile^{1 2} 
  

• Validate that all pages are turned to their proper orientation

• Scanned the entire page with edges (a uniform border should be visible around entire page - use black background paper)
  

• Scanned dimensions closely match actual size of the original and consistent size across all pages in the digital object

• Scanned the complete document including blank pages, reverse side of pages, front and back matter, hard covers, spine, etc.

• the only exception would be newsclippings which are almost always photocopied and blank on the back.

• Ensure that no cropping of page text has occurred 

• Visually check that no distortion or blemishes obscure the legibility due to photo processing (i.e. that a blemish is not part of the original text and or any glare from protective covering is minimized)

• Confirm page sequence matches original and filenames have been properly applied (eg wrcXXXXX_XXX)

• Perform visual comparison of digitized images with original document, checking for any missing or mislabeled pages 

• (optional for Flat Bed scanning) Open a random page from each object in Photoshop, and visually confirm overall tone and color matches original. Should confirm image is in focus by viewing at a resolution view of 50-100%

(1) Note on color management - use AdobeRGB1998 color profile ( since using flat bed scanner and monitor calibration may not be feasible. Recommend using a standard ICC to maintain consistent color throughout images )

(2) Assign profile if sRGB