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[ale] Document Imaging under Linux
- Subject: [ale] Document Imaging under Linux
- From: dcorbin at machturtle.com (David Corbin)
- Date: Sun Sep 14 21:36:09 2003
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
On Sunday 14 September 2003 20:27, John Wells wrote:
> Guys,
>
> My first thought was to store them as JPEGs in the filesystem and then
> store their ids in a database, allowing the filesystem to handle the
> loading and storing of the files. Course, JPEG is just the smallest
> fairly good quality format I'm aware of, and I'm sure I'm overlooking some
> better ones.
Most document management systems probably use TIFF. TIFF has a special black
and white mode and a compression alorithm that is "optimized" for this.
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David Corbin <dcorbin at machturtle.com>