Something I've done in the past with archival documents aimed at both human-readability and printability is something like this:
1. Scan as line art LZW TIFF at 300 ppi, 100% size. This becomes the 'true representation' and printable version of the document. 2. Flip to greyscale 3. Downsample to 4 or 8 levels of grey 4. Save as GIF at 72ppi, 600 pixels wide. This becomes the screen-readable version of the document, the levels of grey anti-alias the handwriting for better on-screen presentation 5. The GIF supplies the web page image, with an embedded link to download or print the high-res TIF. For a few thousand images, this can be automated with Photoshop and scripting tools. For an ongoing process, you'd want to build an application to accomplish the tasks. HTH; Dan Bashaw _____________________________________ Dan Bashaw TM NewMedia 250-475-0808 http://www.tmnewmedia.com/ At 07:38 PM 11/17/2002 -0600, Ryan Kibbins wrote: >I have a client who wants to be able to scan documents and store them >in a >CMS. The task itself is no big deal, but I'm wondering what format others >store their scanned documents in. The documents DO NOT need to be >searchable. They are printed forms with a lot of handwriting on them (some >of them very basic forms with A LOT of scribbled text) -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
