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[COURYHOUSE at aol.com]

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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>  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
>
>> 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
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>