Scanning docs

[Peter Snow]

Hi Theo,

I don't think I can do HTML as such.  That would require OCR into text
and scanning the images separately as JPG's - unfortunately I just don't
have the time for that.  Also it would mean struggling with
OmniPage!(yuck)

Given those constraints along with the file size problem, I think it
will have to be JPGs.

Cheers,

Peter

Theo wrote:
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Peter Snow <psnow at magma.ca>
> 
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Thanks for all the responses! Consensus of opinion indicates it is
> > between JPG, GIF and PDF.
> > Unfortunately I don't have Acrobat so PDF is out (sorry Proteus).
> 
> <flame suit on>
> Great PDF sucks anyway, large files, unstable reader program, no hyper text
> and ya need a 21" or bigger monitor to view a whole page.
> <flame suit off>
> Please keep it HTML, if you don't go freaky the pages printout very well.
> 
> > I did a quick test of file sizes between GIF and JPG and a file that is
> > 125Kb in JPG turns out to be 486Kb in GIF.
> 
> That may depend, make sure that you set the number of collors in the GIF as
> low as possible.
> For 2 or 4 collor stuff 125Kb JPG may turn out 50Kb GIF!
> General rule seems to be: need more than 16 collors, go JPG.
> 
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Peter
> >
> 
> Cheers, Theo