> From: Antonio Carlini
> My scan is ~400MB (and 1090 pages long!)
Even at 1K pages, it shouldn't be anything like that big, if scanned using
the most space-efficient encoding.
For _manuals_, scan at 300 dpi with Black+White encoding (i.e. 1 bit per
pixel), then store as TIFFs with CCITT Group 4 (fax) compression. That does a
typical page of text in ~45KB or so. So you're about an order of magnitude
high....
(For engineering drawings, basically the same, except scan at 600 dpi, to
capture all the small characters such as pinouts.)
Noel
