Thread: Digitising Paperbacks
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Old 07-11-2010, 05:37 AM   #27
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Originally Posted by Iain View Post
The point about this was that a two page scan took up 1.3MB rather than 11MB for an uncompressed TIF and 9 MB for a compressed TIF.
Those files are all extremely large. What sort of resolution/colour depth are you scanning at?
For standard fiction 300dpi black and white is probably fine, and should give PNG files in the low 100s KB per double page.
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