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COURYHOUSE at aol.com
COURYHOUSE at aol.com
Sun Feb 19 18:39:26 CST 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
>
> Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
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