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On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:03:47 +0100 Simon Waters wrote: > Grant Sewell wrote: > > > > I have got my nice ol' SCSI scanner back up and running. It is my > > intention to scan-in all receipts and documents relating to my work > > so I have electronic and physical copies (anyone else notice how > > the text on receipts, even when kept in the dark, seem to fade to > > almost nothing in a matter of weeks?). > > > > What would be your recommendation for a good image format to use? > > I'd assume any well known raster image format that can support limited > colours would be good? > > Most lossy compression formats are not good with text, so lossless if > disk space isn't an issue. > > "png" is the obvious choice, although make sure you don't store more > colours than you need in terms of colours or greys. See the book for > more advice. > > http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/book/ > > pngcrush is your friend. > > On the other hand I'd be trying to figure out if and how long I really > need to keep them, and spend as little effort as possible on paper > work that no one ever refers back to. I'll have a look at png - it's always seemed to be something that has more to it than I imagine, and I imagine I'm right. :D Anyone use/used/looking into DjVu? Certainly the Wikipedia page looks interesting... just reading on it myself. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html