question. the documents are already in JPG format? or do you need to process the documents either in a big batch or ongoing?
Without thinking, I would store the images as PDFs. Certainly for Internet distribution. Here is a question for the group. I think most optical character recognition use TIFF format or hybrid thereof for "image" storage of documents. I think most fax softwre works with TIFF as well. So is it best to store the ROOT case of the image document as a TIFF document (or variant - please suggest) or as a PDF? (Note: from what I understand the process of scanning from document to PDF uses TIFF as an interim format before the creation of the PDF. BUT apparently you don't lose anything once in PDF format - so you still have the capability of doing the OCR and creating word, rtf or whatever documents (need acrobat 5 or later). I have answered my own question. heh. I would: 1) Scan document to a high res PDF. (note: acrobat is a fairly robust package capable of running a print shop) 2) Convert high res to "web sized" PDF for easy distribution. 3) Create a simple workflow process which queues the PDFs for "finishing" ie OCR and creation of word or RTF documents etc. (Note: I have a friend has a company dedicated to PDF stuff, ie scanning, cataloging, OCR etc. Conceptually, (not knowing your application), I see the value in his "plug in" services - ie allow people to queue PDF processing - if they need to manipulate the information on record. Meaning - index and catalog PDFs on the web - high and distribution quality available. Allow users to queue additional processing on the PDFs. HTH Eric From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: document image format Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 9:26:56 -0400 I am building an app that lets people search and display scans of old historical documents. Right now the sample documents we are using for testing are jpgs. The problem is that in order to actually read the documents they have to be very large. I'm not too worried about download time but I am worried that it is very awkward to manipulate a large jpeg in a browser. I was thinking that putting the jpg in a PDF file would solve my problem. The user would be able to zoom in and out and generally have a better experience. Does anyone have any thoughts on this approach? Is it a good idea. thanks, BJ ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
