Scanning Your Logbooks

Hint: Use Your Phone

I get a number of questions about scanning logs. The most important thing is to avoid procrastination and make some time to get the task done.

It’s really inexpensive to use a cell phone camera to PDF scanner application. Many modern cell phones have camera resolutions that will yield a greater than 300 DPI scan for an 8 1/2 x 11 in page. Remember to scan everything in your log. It’s a pain to unstaple the 8130 forms, scan and reattach them, but this adds value to the scanned record. In this way you get overhaul information including who overhauled the part and its serial number. Sometimes ADs pertain to certain serial numbered parts. The RAG-AI can keep track of it all.

Make sure the 8130 or other forms you find in your logbook are scanned in the order they appear in your logs. For best results scan those tags with a separate scan which will form a separate page. It’s best not to have any scan that is bigger than 8 1/2 x 11 inches.

Another consideration is that we don’t need to do Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on these files. Leave them as image PDFs. The Google AI API in the LogAir.ai system is by far the best OCR and the files will be converted on the fly when using the LogAir.ai system.

Their are various YouTube videos explaining using your phone to do the scanning. One of my favorite ones is here: