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19 Feb 2017

well  I save  the  tiff   because that's   what archivists  do
generally I  end up using the jpeg  to  make   picture  from. or  post to 
net!

In a message dated 2/19/2017 4:25:48 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
toby at telegraphics.com.au writes:

On  2017-02-19 3:50 PM, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
...
  When  we scan stuff  at  SMECC
 it is saved in the following 3  formats   for  each item  scanned.

 PDF  with ocr  background
 TIFF
 JPEG
 and  if    containing a lot  of  text   a  TXT  file as  well.

 Kind of a shotgun approach... but   should  stand  test  of  time? 
Only if you're publishing it  somewhere and many people are mirroring it.

--Toby

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 In a message dated  2/19/2017 1:44:52 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
  jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu writes:

  From: Toby  Thain 
  Often the source  material is a multipage TIFF 
from the scanner or other
  processing step. 
  Multiple single-page TIFFs, in my case.

  So relevant tools  are things like tiff2pdf
(tiffutils) 
 But  also JPEG's,  for pages where the B+W scanning I use (with fax
 compression
  to keep the file size down) results in pages that aren't  readable -   this
...
  happens on faded pages. Does tiff2pdf handle a bunch
of   single-page
 TIFF's, with a JPEG or two throw in?

  Noel