Re: What image type should I use for storing scanned images?

Hello Art, 

Unless you're only doing single page images you will need to use TIFF or 
PDF for your output format. 

The trick is to save as Group 4 1-Bit Black and White TIFF Images.   Your 
average page size will be 50kb per page.

If you have a high-end Canon, Ricoh, Xerox, etc. multi-function 
copier/scanner you can also select PDF for the output type and the 
multi-page TIFFs get wrapped as PDF files. Pretty cool stuff. 

TIFF is the most industry standard format to store documents with.  If you 
wrap them as PDF files, then anybody with Acrobat can view them. 

If you decide to display to users as GIF/JPG, etc. you can then write code 
to convert them to GIF/JPG on the fly so that for display they can be seen 
right in the browser. 

I'm not sure what you're using for scanning software, but our RJS Imaging 
Scan Workstation or Image Server/400 software might be a nice way to 
quickly implement scanning and retreival in your applications. Our 
products are very quick and easy to implement. 

If you want to talk specifics, feel free to give me a call.

Regards,
Richard Schoen
RJS Software Systems Inc. 
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Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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message: 5
date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:59:58 -0500
from: "Art Tostaine, Jr." <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: What image type should I use for storing scanned images?

I'm scanning BOL's and other handwritten forms.  Most of the scanning
systems I've seen always use TIFF, which is a pain because it requires
plugins for IE.

I was using JPEG, and the file sizes were around 400-500K.

I tried TIFF, and they are 3 times that size.

Is there a reason I should use TIFF anyway?

Thanks.
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Art Tostaine (GMAIL)
CCA, Inc.
Jackson, NJ 08527