Scanning

[Jochen Kunz]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 22:22:18 -0500
"Gil Carrick" <gilcarrick at comcast.net> wrote:

> 1) Things that are mostly schematics.
> 
> 2) Things with a large text component that I might want to try to OCR.
> Questions:
> 
> a) What resolution should I use for these two things?
I found 300 dpi at 1 bpp sufficient for those things. I recommend the
fax G4 compression on 1 bpp images with line art. Works better then
JPEG. PDF and IIRC TIFF files support G4 compression.
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tschüß,
       Jochen

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