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[Toby Thain]

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.
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> 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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> Ed#  _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)
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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:
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>> From: Toby Thain
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>> Often the source  material is a multipage TIFF from the scanner or other
>>  processing step.
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> Multiple single-page TIFFs, in my case.
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>> So relevant tools are things like tiff2pdf (tiffutils)
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> 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
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