Scanning docs

[Jeroen Proveniers]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Magnus Danielson [mailto:cfmd at swipnet.se]
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 9:01 PM
> To: dh at synthstuff.com
> Cc: psnow at magma.ca; synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl
> Subject: RE: Scanning docs
> 
> 
> From: "David Halliday" <dh at synthstuff.com>
> Subject: RE: Scanning docs
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 21:37:59 -0700
> 
> > Unh...  How many colors deep was the GIF file - if you are scanning
> > schematics, there should only be two colors and with this, 
> GIF will far far
> > outshine JPG.
> > 
> is the LZW
> section of TIFF not commonly used.

I've to correct you. TIFF compression is used everyday, all over the world.
Namely fax documents are encoded this way, before being sent. And it not
LZW, it's Huffman coding. The code table is fixed, while LZW makes a new one
for each job.
I know this because I'm current working on a fax project. (Argh, 8051 doing
Huffman compression)

JJ