[sane-devel] how to scan a multipage document with no adf?
Ulrich Deiters
ukd@xenon.pc.Uni-Koeln.DE
Tue, 11 Mar 2003 08:18:21 +0100 (MET)
The TIFF standard supports multiple images in one file, but
a) not every TIFF reader can handle this. First make sure that your
image viewer (or that of the mail recipient) can handle multi-image
TIFF.
b) the typical TIFF compression schemes (Packbits, LZW) are good for
lineart only. For colour photos you need TIFF JPEG, but again, this
cannot be handled by all viewers.
PDF can handle multi-page documents with images, but the compression
of colour graphics is not always good. See one of the previous discussion
threads of this forum on how to produce PDFs.
In short: Much depends on whether you want to scan colour photos or
monochrome blueprints.
Regards,
Ulrich Deiters