Greg Twyford wrote: > David Guest wrote: >> Dear Digerati >> >> I have an increasing number of large raw tiff images (mostly hand >> scrawled discharge summaries) that are accessed through the Windows >> picture viewer. They are housed on a samba share and are starting to >> chew up significant disc space. I would like to shrink them, preferably >> with a command line tool. > > David, Sorry for the delay in replying. I'd been outed by Internode.
> Wouldn't an alternative approach be to take the scanned hand-written > document, print it, wrap it around a house brick with rubber bands and > chuck it through the window of the hospital administrator responsible? I'm with you Greg. You name the time. > Those big tiffs must use lots of E-mail mailbox space and bandwidth, > and probably worsen already illegible notes. What resident would scan > his/her own summaries and E-mail them as tiffs?? It's got to be their > medical records clerks. There are a few faxes now but they are mostly un-OCR-able scans of hand written notes or documents with terrible layouts (e.g. Rehab physios, OTs, etc. who love ticking boxes). > Surely a bit of persuasion at source might get a better result in the > long-run? The hospital has opted for Argus. The areas docs have opted for MO. Our next task is to get one to talk to the other. :-( David
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