file formats for document scanning.
Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 9:44 pm
i was wondering if anyone knows what's the best format for scanning documents.
i want to scan some documents, basically i'm scanning them as graphics (i.e. no OCR), black & white (1 bit depth).
what's the most recommended format for doing this?
i've been using PCX till now (that's what i was told to use when i first started scanning a few years back) but i'm going to do a lot of documents soon and was wondering if there's anything better.
is PCX a compressed format? lossy or not?
i've heard of TIFF. how does it compare with PCX?
any other options that are as good / better than PCX? in terms of compression without loss of quality.
any recommendations welcome.
if anyone has a link to some page i can read up a bit about this, much appreciated
(weighed down by a lot of work so i've no time to do proper research, or search for that matter, myself... )
TIA
i want to scan some documents, basically i'm scanning them as graphics (i.e. no OCR), black & white (1 bit depth).
what's the most recommended format for doing this?
i've been using PCX till now (that's what i was told to use when i first started scanning a few years back) but i'm going to do a lot of documents soon and was wondering if there's anything better.
is PCX a compressed format? lossy or not?
i've heard of TIFF. how does it compare with PCX?
any other options that are as good / better than PCX? in terms of compression without loss of quality.
any recommendations welcome.
if anyone has a link to some page i can read up a bit about this, much appreciated
(weighed down by a lot of work so i've no time to do proper research, or search for that matter, myself... )
TIA