Dan Chisarick wrote:
JPEG: I guess I was lazy because the scanner supports JPEG, TIFF, PCT
and PSD as native outputs. I can scan each page w/its own settings
(color vs BW pretty much) in TIFF format and post-process the scans
into PNG.
JPEG is fantastic if there are any full-page ads or photos or something
-- you scan those at 300 DPI with some sort of descreening option turned
on and it turns out great, then JPEG turns it into a managable size.
But for just BW text, it's the last thing you want to use.
PDF: I was going for the 'book binding' wrapper rather than having a ZIP
of loose pages, but when I look at even my original scans... they're
only 17MB for the individual pages, but the resulting PDF is 43! I'm
willing to bet that there is some optimization I can do to make the PDF
files smaller w/o compromising the quality, but that's my last
priority. I was also thinking annotations, the 'searchable image'
option, etc.
If you're going to use PDF, you should OCR the images to turn stuff into
usuable text. Adobe Acrobat's Capture has a checkbox'd option to do OCR
but *leave* the image in place so that any bad OCR won't mangle the
displayed results (but the text will still be hidden and searchable).
That is probably the only reason to use PDF. Otherwise, as you found
out, it's better to just archive a series of image files, properly numbered.
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