Re: Scanning?

[Mike Maginnis <maginnis@tarnover.org>]

On 15 Apr 2005 15:36:36 -0700, Eric Smith <eric@brouhaha.com> wrote:

>Mike Maginnis <maginnis@tarnover.org> writes:

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>
>When you save as TIFF, what do you get?  TIFF is one of those all-
>encompassing formats that can store things in a zillion different ways.
>You can email me one to analyze if you like.
>
>Saving as GIF might enable you to do a lossless conversion to G4.
>
>How many photographs or other continuous-tone images are in the
>documents you want to scan?  (Line art is OK for G4.)
>
>If you want to see examples of scanned G4 documents, grab almost anything
>in the PDF section of www.bitsavers.org.  They're almost all G4, except
>the cover pages of some things that are color use JPEG compression.
>
>Best regards,
>Eric

OK, looks like I'll be sticking to lossy JPEGs for now.  The OCR
process is too cumbersome - my apps (OmniPage 14 and Acrobat 7) are at
about 70% accuracy, due largely to them being unable to properly
process the numerous code listings.  These are the hardest part to
proof, and apparently to OCR. 

I've tried the other suggestions listed here but none of the image
formats produces a file smaller than about 150K.  So, since it's all
the same, I'll go the easy route and continue what I was previously
doing: scanning at below-medium Jpeg format.

Thanks, everyone, for the tips.  I learned a few things about some of
my software, so regardless of the ultimate outcome, this was a good
thread for me.

- Mike
maginnis@tarnover.org