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What's the best way to scan and save vital records
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I'm scanning a whole stack of vital records. How should I save them? Should I scan and save them as photos (.jpg or .png)? Of should I scan and save them as documents (.pdf or .rtf)? I know…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Christine M. Worthington Jul 19, 2012.
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Christine M. Worthington replied to Chris Perry's discussion What's the best way to scan and save vital records
Chris Perry replied to Chris Perry's discussion What's the best way to scan and save vital records"Thanks, Kate. I agree with you. Now that you've confirmed what I was taught, I will continue to scan my documents as .pdf files. But instead of also scanning and saving them as .png files, I will take your advice and use .tiff…"
Kate Wagner replied to Chris Perry's discussion What's the best way to scan and save vital records"I'm done and out of this. You appear to have a lot of time on your hands and want to use it to argue."
Kate Wagner replied to Chris Perry's discussion What's the best way to scan and save vital records"Why would you want to use a 72 or 150dpi file for print purposes?????"
Kate Wagner replied to Chris Perry's discussion What's the best way to scan and save vital records"I'm not sure what this has to do with the thread?"
Chris Perry replied to Chris Perry's discussion What's the best way to scan and save vital records"Thanks again for the input. You've confirmed what I was taught. I used png's rather than tiff's simply because of the resulting file size. However, I just got another 1TB portable HD added to my 2TB desktop external…"
Kate Wagner replied to Chris Perry's discussion What's the best way to scan and save vital records"In order for a file to be compressed,data will be lost. Depending on the algorithm used to compress the file, more or less data is lost. One way of compressing is to identify like data and refer to it only once rather than by individual bits and…"
Chris Perry replied to Chris Perry's discussion What's the best way to scan and save vital records"What's your opinion on the tiff versus png debate? From what I've read, there's very little (if any) difference in the quality of an image scanned either as a tiff or a png. I understand that the png file takes up about…"
Kate Wagner replied to Chris Perry's discussion What's the best way to scan and save vital records"Hi, Chris. I just saw your thread and for what it is worth, am going to add my bit to the thread learned from many years in document layout and digital art. First, I scan every document/photograph regardless of what it is, in a *.tiff…"
Chris Perry replied to Chris Perry's discussion What's the best way to scan and save vital records"First of all, if you read my original post, it concerns scanning and archiving documents -- it has nothing to do with photos.
Secondly, if you scan a photo at 300dpi and then, using photo editing software, resize the image to 8x10 inches, then save…"
Chris Perry replied to Chris Perry's discussion What's the best way to scan and save vital records"Thanks for the response. It seems the consensus is to scan them as jpg files. It's interesting that you use no less than 400dpi. I've always used 300dpi for scanning both documents and images (pdf, jpg, tiff, png) unless…"
Chris Perry replied to Chris Perry's discussion What's the best way to scan and save vital records"Thanks."
Chris Perry replied to Chris Perry's discussion What's the best way to scan and save vital records"As far as how to save photos, you should use .png files rather than .tif files. .png files use lossless compression so that there is no data loss when images are opened and resaved (every time you resave a .jpg file it loses a little bit of…"
Patricia (FERGUSON) Gerkin replied to Chris Perry's discussion What's the best way to scan and save vital records"If you scan as a photo, you should save your template as a .tiff file, so your photo doesn't degrade every time you open and save a copy. You can always open your tiff photo and then save a copy as a jpg to…"
Robert Melendy replied to Chris Perry's discussion What's the best way to scan and save vital records"Between file size and quality, jpg is the way to go."
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I'm scanning a whole stack of vital records. How should I save them? Should I scan and save them as photos (.jpg or .png)? Of should I scan and save them as documents (.pdf or .rtf)? I know they'll be much smaller files if I scan them as documents, but I have plenty of storage space so I'm not concerned about file size. What I am concerned about it quality, and which way is the best way to digital preserve these vital records for prosperity. Any advice will be welcomed. Thanks.See More
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