Ian Cheong wrote: > At 11:45 am +1000 1/8/06, David Guest wrote: > >> Ian Cheong wrote: >> >>> curious - how many bits? >> >> >> We scanned as raw TIFF which was a mistake in retrospect. 4 meg files >> are not uncommon. One is 32 meg. >> >> I understand compressed TIFFs get down to about 50k. >> >> David > > > If you can convert them to binary (one bit depth black and white with > appropriate threshhold), they will take up way less space. > > Ian.
Isn't there a setting on the scanner software that controls the compression? Our practice software controls the scanner, but the preferences were already set by the scanning software. That said, our blob file is already over 2G, so I am keenly awaiting the widespread uptake of Argus and the like by specialists and hospitals. Jim _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
