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Re: Digital Images



Title: RE: Digital Images

Trina,

Kim Scott is right...this is a "fun" one.

My question to you would be, "How do you plan to use the scans of your newspaper clippings?" If you are doing an OCR on them and presenting the "content," on the web (in effect, a transcription of the text), then your "master" file would be a small (relative to the size of the original TIFF file) text file. If you are combining some "image" aspect of the clipping, then you will need to retain some kind of "master" image file format (i.e., TIFF). The same would hold true if you are simply displaying "page" images...you'll need that master TIFF somewhere.

Of course, one of the other questions would be "Can you afford to re-scan the documents?" If yes, then don't worry about saving a master TIFF.



Dennis Moser, MILS
Project Director, IMLS National Leadership Grant
Digital Imaging Faculty
Lee College
P.O. Box 818, Baytown, TX 77522-0818
(281)425-6819/(281)425-6557 (fax)
dmoser@lee.edu