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johndavidwood
I'm using the Opticbook 3600 Scanner to scan some pages from some
books, which I will send to OCR and convert to PDF. (For those
unfamiliar with the scanner, it is specially designed to scan books
without shadows, distorted text, etc.)
Here is my question:
I usually scan 300 dpi B+W into an image file and then send to OCR
(ABBYY Finereader 8).
The scanner software comes with software which allows scanning to four
different file formats: BMP, TIFF, PNG, and JPG. The software doesn't
allow to change any settings for these formats.
I know JPG is a compressed, lossy, format, but aren't the other three
lossless bitmap fomats?
In other words -- if all three should in theory produce a perfect
image, why not just scan to PNG which is the smallest file size, and
then send to OCR?
Where am I flawed in my reasoning??
JDW
books, which I will send to OCR and convert to PDF. (For those
unfamiliar with the scanner, it is specially designed to scan books
without shadows, distorted text, etc.)
Here is my question:
I usually scan 300 dpi B+W into an image file and then send to OCR
(ABBYY Finereader 8).
The scanner software comes with software which allows scanning to four
different file formats: BMP, TIFF, PNG, and JPG. The software doesn't
allow to change any settings for these formats.
I know JPG is a compressed, lossy, format, but aren't the other three
lossless bitmap fomats?
In other words -- if all three should in theory produce a perfect
image, why not just scan to PNG which is the smallest file size, and
then send to OCR?
Where am I flawed in my reasoning??
JDW