[internetworkers] scanning for archive
Simon Spero
ses at unc.edu
Thu Aug 31 18:56:52 EDT 2006
This is a good starting place - http://www.fcla.edu/digitalArchive/
pdfs/recFormats.pdf
You might want to consider a lossless image format like TIFF; JPEG
is smaller, but lossy
Simon
On Aug 31, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Thomas Beckett wrote:
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> I've got an 80-page document that I need to scan for a digital
> archive.
> I wonder if y'all could suggest:
>
> a) what file format is best for this purpose?
> b) what image density is appropriate.
>
> This is a petition, so there's printed text but also all kinds of
> crazy
> handwriting. We want to archive it accurately, but also be able to
> put
> it up on the Web. We'd probably want a denser file for the archive
> and
> reduce it to 72 dpi for a Web version.
>
> I'm guessing that .jpg would be a good format, but I don't know that
> much about this sort of thing. What is the collective wisdom?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Thomas
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