Question about PDF manipulation

On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 04:18:29 +0200, Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote: You do not get my point: Instead of adding an extra step to make PDF files, I think it is better to keep the raw scans. Preferably as PNGs, but if the scanner software does not provide that, TIFF is workable. Thus, those who scan things (a task I really appreciate a lot) do not spend valuable time making the results less accessible, and it will be easy to OCR the images later on. My point is that a pure bitmap is both easier to make and more useable than an Acrobat document, both for archival purposes and for further work. The problem with TIFF is that it is bulky and not a single well-defined format, so it happens that software A will generate a TIFF that cannot be displayed by software B. PNG is a nice, open and flexible format which is designed to be the best cross-platform lossless image format. -- Bj?rn