[ubuntu-uk] Document Storage

[Alec Wright]

100DPI JPEG is usually fine for me - if you can, adjust the quality to get the best compression while still leaving it readable.
On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 12:10 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote:
> Morning Folks
> 
> In the list's opinion which is the best way to store documents?
> 
> In particular, as my own filing system is, well non existant, I was thinking
> about scanning all necessary documents and then storing them eithre to HD or
> CD / DVD.
> 
> I've been trying to work out in my own mind what would be the better way to
> store these scanned documents that will maintain the clarity and be of
> minimal size.
> 
> So far it's looking like storing them as a tiff image, but I'm not sure
> whether it's worth the time to push them through an OCR tool and into an
> appropriate document format.  Either raw or compressed through something
> like 7Zip into a self extracting file, or such like
> 
> It is not necessary for the stored images to be "legal" copies but are
> merely there for my own reference.
> 
> Thoughts, apart from sorting out my paper filing system!
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