Re: Hardcore Computist Magazine online...

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org.is.invalid (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <40350c3f$0$12911$45beb828@newscene.com>,
Michael Maginnis  <michaelmaginnis@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Scott Alfter wrote:
>> What bit depth are you using?
>
>I've been doing b&w line art scanning, with the jpg image quality set to 
>low

"1 bpp" and "JPEG" don't belong in the same sentence.  JPEG is intended for
photographic images (color or grayscale) only.

>My scanner (Agfa SnapScan Touch) insists on scanning only to it's own
>software - anything else dies with "Communication Error", so quality OCR
>software like Omnipage is right out.

Will it save to formats other than JPEG?  I'd recommend saving to BMP and
using other software to convert from BMP to something more efficient.

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