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  • From: Simon Spero <ses AT unc.edu>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] scanning for archive
  • Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:56:52 -0400

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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