manual file types

[Fritz Chwolka]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:30:17 -0500, Paul Koning wrote:

>>>>>> "John" == John Allain <allain at panix.com> writes:
>
> >> The general consensus seems to be that bi-level scanning with a
> >> resolution of at least 300dpi but preferably 400dpi

>Oh yes, never never never use JPEG for compressing text or line art
>scans.  For one thing, it butchers the image, and besides, the
>compression isn't very effective.  A scan with the page background
>cleaned up to mostly-white will produce a SMALLER file if compressed
>by lossless compression in TIFF, PNG, or GIF, than it does when
>compressed with the lossy JPEG.  (The "P" in JPEG stands for
>"photography" -- and indeed JPEG is ONLY fit for photographs and
>similar continuous-tone images, and not for any other kind.)
>
>    paul
>


Badly my favorite software ABBY finereader 6  uses JPEG for
compressing.
I don't know what finerader 7  makes.
Finerader 5 makes uses gif compressing format.
So what shall I do?

Mit freundlichen Gruessen

Fritz Chwolka