Re: Imaging Questions

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Message-Id: <mailto:199504040611.BAA18994@library.wustl.edu>
Date:         Mon, 3 Apr 1995 22:48:12 UNDEFINED
From: "Kevin C. Marsh" <mailto:IAI@SAM.NEOSOFT.COM>
Subject:      Re: Imaging Questions
To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB

In article <mailto:m0rvqIv-000ZxvC@sun.cis.smu.edu> John Pillans
mailto:<mailto:jpillans@SUN.CIS.SMU.EDU> writes:

>1.  Is there a source to find out which image type (GIF,JPEG etc.) is

>best for different types of material to scanned.  We have everything

>from original lithographs to hand written letters we would like to

>scan and knowing which image type is best would help in establishing

>standards for scanning.


JPEG compression provides the best image quality/file size for continuous tone
materials like photographs.  I have less experience with hand written letters,
but TIFF seems to be popular in the document scanning community.


Kevin C. Marsh               mailto:IAI@Sam.Neosoft.Com
Executive Director
Information Access Institute

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