[TAG] Re: [linuxgazette Dec. 2005] scanning and file-size

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

Hi, Emil -

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 07:15:45PM +0100, Emil Gorter wrote:
> 
> Hi Edgar,
> 
> 
> I read your article http://linuxgazette.net/121/howell.html and it 
> reminded me of a problem I had faced.  For my work I had to figure 
> out a way to scan and store contracts digitally.  
> The file-size issue was quite interesting with ++6000 pages to go :-)
> 
> I found that creating PDFs is quite easy, and gives very good 
> results.  Nice quality, great reduction in size.  Example:
> 
>  $ tiff2ps -2 -a Scan0001.tif | ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 - > Scan0001.pdf
>  $ ls -1 --size -h Scan0001.*
>  1.1M Scan0001.pdf
>   25M Scan0001.tif
> 
> 
> By the way, for practical reasons the scans were made with a Windows 
> machine..  Still have to try SANE myself someday.
> 
> I hope this helps!
> 
> Emil Gorter

I'll forward this to The Answer Gang, so that your useful addendum to
Edgar's article can be published. Thanks!


Regards,
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://linuxgazette.net *