Making Digital Facsimiles of Documents, Part 5: Image File Formats
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A one-page technical guide by Ralph Griswold on choosing image file formats when scanning documents to make digital facsimiles. It recommends TIFF as the best format and advises against GIF (no resolution information, 256-color limit) and JPEG (lossy compression). It also covers compressed versus uncompressed TIFF and the use of archiving programs such as Zip.
- Type
- Web Doc
- Date
- January 11, 2003
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
- Archive notes
- Revised April 1, 2004
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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