[ILUG] Image Formats: the end

[Fergal Daly]

At 00:32 08/06/00, Kenn Humborg wrote:
>Now, _that's_ a different story.  The TIFF file format allows for multiple
>pages to be stored within the one file.  Handy for dealing with documents,
>rather than images (think multi-page faxes, or scanned docs as you mentioned).
>
>TIFF makes much more sense than either GIF, JPEG or PNG for these
>applications.  I don't think you (or the users) will want to deal with
>the 100+ JPEG files it might take to deal with one document.
>
>I think everyone assumed that you meant the images on the actual web
>pages when you asked originally.
>
>See what happens when you ask questions without providing enough context?

You really want to look at 
http://www.luratech.de/products/productoverview/luradocument/fs_e.html 
compressing a 1586x2397 pixel (13cm x 20cm) paper document with some 
handwriting and lots of creases down to 12k, storing the background and the 
text separately so you could probably ditch the background for even further 
savings if you just want the text.

You need to get the plugin to appreciate it really and it's all (or gonna 
be shortly) jpeg2000 compliant, they say.

If you're going to be doing serious document archiving this looks mighty 
cool, there's probably a few other places doing this sort of stuff too, as 
usual, it's all thanks to wavelets,

Fergal