Message-Id: <mailto:199504200454.XAA23118@library.wustl.edu> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 12:50:09 EDT From: Owen <mailto:Somerset@INTERRAMP.COM> Subject: Re: using Adobe Acrobat for images To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
>We're about to start a small imaging project, to scan our local business
>clippings file, about 20 clippings a week from our daily paper. We want
>the clippings to be screen readable and able to print. Right now we will
>only network the server to 2 terminals in our Business Division; in about
>1 1/2 years we will be in a new building where we will have networks and
>can make the images available county wide, probably not on the Internet.
>I've recently been looking at Adobe Acrobat, it has several useful
>features such as ability to link pages and enlarge. Has anyone had
>experience with Acrobat, with black and white bitmapped text images?
>Another possibility is FoxPro as the indexing tool for the images, has
>anyone had experience with FoxPro? Thanks.
> Susan Shippey, Rochester Public Library, Rochester, NY
> e-mail replies to mailto:fshippey@eznet.net
Two comments: There are quite a number of packages that will display, enlarge, rotate, etc b/w images that are very inexpensive. Second, with the volume of data that you are proposing, you could probably go for very many weeks (or years) by just putting the indexing info in a text file along with the image number and have 2 open windows on a pc running windows. Very low-tech, but cheap & reliable!
Owen.
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