Hold the scanners

From: Antonio Carlini <a.carlini_at_ntlworld.com>
Date: Fri Nov 12 17:38:31 2004

> I would hope the scans are TIFF, not JPG. JPG images are generally
> blurry, especially if the original had sharp black & white contrast.
> JPG is NOT fit for that job.

Fully agreed. However, 200 dpi JPG is considerably better than
"how can we scan fiche", which is where the rest of us seem
to have been stuck for the last N years :-)

Now at least we can argue about how best to index and
post-process the stuff and then watch Paul try to
OCR it all for Manx ...

Antonio

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Antonio Carlini arcarlini_at_iee.org
Received on Fri Nov 12 2004 - 17:38:31 GMT

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