3 Jun
2005
3 Jun
'05
5:09 a.m.
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 23:15 -0700, Eric Smith wrote:
Does any TIFF file of the nature you describe actually
exist? PDFs
with both bitmaps and text are not uncommon.
I'm not sure I've seen one, and I've dealt with a *lot* of TIFF files
over the years.
Other metadata such as the app that created the image etc. is quite
common though, and I have a feeling that Photoshop puts in all sorts of
extra tags (I haven't got a copy here with which to check)
Whether any such tags are useful to preserve is another matter.
Personally I like the accountability; I'd like to know who scanned a
document, when they scanned it, what software they used to do the scan.
Mainly because it may help at some future OCR stage in identifying ways
of improving the process or runs of documents that are likely to cause
trouble during the OCR phase. Plus of course it's nice to know who was
responsible for the hard work!
cheers
Jules