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Here is a perplexing problem -- I hope someone can help us.

We scanned some documents on one scanner (an HP ScanJet IIcx) and saved
the image files as TIFFs.  Later, additional documents were scanned on a
different scanner (Microtek ScanMaker III) and added to the previous
group.  Both scanners are connected to PCs running Windows.  Settings for
both scan jobs were identical (400 dpi bitonal, TIFF with PC byte order,
LZW compression).  Now in Photoshop 4.0, we proceeded to batch-process the
TIFFs (save them as grayscale GIFs). Strangely, the images produced from
the Microtek scanner were processed fine, while the others done on the HP
scanner couldn't be opened "because of a problem parsing the TIFF file,"
quoth Photoshop.  Has this happened to anyone else, and if so: what's the
cause and can any of the files be salvaged?

Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this.

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Peter Nelson                                    pnelson@mtholyoke.edu
Five College Archives Digital Access Project
c/o Mount Holyoke College Archives       http://clio.fivecolleges.edu
South Hadley, MA 01075                                 (413) 538-3020

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