[Coco] Re: Feedback on Quality Requested

Neil Morrison neilsmorr at hotpop.com
Fri Apr 28 16:30:59 EDT 2006


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>

> How much storage area do you have available for this project?  And can
> you do OCR on the pure text pages, then output a 10k .ps file for those
> pages only.  I've found that reliable OCR that doesn't need a lot of
> hand editing, tends to need 600dpi and up scanned image to work with,
> and those will be 20+ megs a page until converted.

My experience is that 300 dpi greyscale is fine for OCR. If you put the text 
under the image you get a readable page with copyable text which is 90% or 
more ready to use.

Neil




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