Mini-Mini computer scans

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Tue Jan 8 19:06:39 2002

On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Ben Franchuk wrote:
> Tothwolf wrote:
>
> > Actually, these jpegs are great. I wish more scanned documents were made
> > available in this format. Once I have my equipment set back up, I'll set
> > about processing them with OCR software. The author's block printing
> > should OCR well since his handwriting is very good. Once I have them OCR'd
> > I'll work on converting them to postscript.
>
> JPEG is a lossy imaging format. You lose detail with this format.
> Use something else!

These jpegs are of very high quality compared to the lossy/fuzzy images
usually found in pdf files. I would have stored the images as a Tiff
format files and gzip'd them if I had scanned these documents.

-Toth
Received on Tue Jan 08 2002 - 19:06:39 GMT