On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 12:10 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote: > Morning Folks > > In the list's opinion which is the best way to store documents? > > In particular, as my own filing system is, well non existant, I was thinking > about scanning all necessary documents and then storing them eithre to HD or > CD / DVD. > > I've been trying to work out in my own mind what would be the better way to > store these scanned documents that will maintain the clarity and be of > minimal size. <SNIP>
Hi Ian, I have been looking into the same possibility over the last few months. Personally i would recommend PDF as it is easily accessible and a good file size with ~300dpi. One method of retrieval I did consider was http based searching with the scanned image OCR'd, this would allow $filename.pdf and $filename.txt. The later containing the 'best effort' of OCR. The web interface could search the txt's for keywords and link to the corresponding PDF's. Currently I have automated the scan process producing a PDF and an OCR'd txt file. If I find time this week, I will try and work on it further - and maybe create a project on launchpad hosting the source. Kind Regards Dave Walker
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