[ale] Document Imaging under Linux

[Matthew Brown]

I haven't looked at this in some time, and never on Linux, but when I
did this for a living, we always scanned into TIFF-CALS Group 4, Black
and White.  It offered reasonable compression, , multi-page capability,
and excellent portability.  I also know a lot of folks use PDF, but I
was under the impression it created much larger files... just an
impression, don't recall why.

My OCR experience is similar to Geoffrey's.




On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 07:21, John Wells wrote:

> My thoughts exactly.  So I wonder...if I'm not using OCR, is pdf the best
> (and smallest file size) option?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoffrey [mailto:esoteric at 3times25.net]
> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 7:12 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Document Imaging under Linux
> 
> 
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > xsane + ADF scanner + script-foo + database + webserver + time
> > 
> > Save the images as a pdf unless you plan on trying OCR, then scan using
> > black and white and save as tiff.
> 
> All the free Linux OCR software is pretty green.  I've not been 
> impressed.  Then again, I've never found anything that was perfect in 
> any environment.  With the massive number of fonts and such out there, 
> which continues to grow, it's a very difficult problem.

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Best regards,

Matthew Brown
CorData, Inc.
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