Scanning docs

[DCMagnuson at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/25/00 9:23:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
gendreau at rochester.rr.com writes:

> GIF is nice and probably easier for people to view, but I am fairly certain
>  Group-4 TIFF format has better compression for these types of scanned
>  images. At 300DPI, most scanned pages are ~40kb. The software that comes
>  with most scanners can produce Group4 TIFFs and most shareware image
>  viewers/editors support the format.
>  

TIFF does compress very well.  I do AutoCAD for a living, and all of our hand 
drawn blueprints (36"x24") get scanned into Group-4 TIFF files so I can 
import them into the software.  It's suprising how small these files can be.  
Works very well for B+W line art

Dave magnuson