So my grandmother wote down several recipes for me, and I am loving that she wrote them down in her own handwriting, and that I now have them to preserve forever.
It gave me the idea to scrap a heritage cook book, using recipes from all the women in my family and give them out as Christmas gifts.

So I am trying to figure out how to scan them properly. Most of them are on grubby notebook spiral paper with bent edges--which I am loving! I wish to scrap them exactly as they are, but I can't get them to scan without washing out the spiral torn edges and the bent corners.

I tried 200 and 300 dpi, as well as scanning as a document and as a picture. I am using the output type as 24 millions (24 bit) of color. Is there a particular way to do this? How do you all scan thing such as this?

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