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[Mark Turner <markt AT siteseers.net>]

Yes, avoid JPEGs. They are lossy. Not good for an archive. Go with TIFF.

I also recommend scanning at 600dpi if you are planning to do any OCR on 
it in the future. Some OCR packages don't accurately read at anything 
less than 600 dpi. (Then again, some OCRs don't read anything at ANY 
resolution!)

Cheers!
--
Mark
www.markturner.net

Simon Spero wrote:
> 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:
>
>
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > 	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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> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32)
> >
> > iD8DBQFE91eUEMCfelopa1cRAsG7AJ9rD3CG7kbWIRhQQav8q6B9LaVFmQCgmLHx
> > 9eHUSiSR6ibuvhnl45gUMoY=
> > =gGpN
> > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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