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[Simon Spero <ses AT unc.edu>]

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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