Hello
What I have proposed are the standard procedures for a small/normal digitizing project, based on the info of your needs.
So let’s try to answer your doubts.
1 - resolution - if your stuff is monochrome, 300 dpi monochrome (black and white) is enough (think always that the minimum resolution as to be what you would need to make a photocopy from the original, a photocopy black and white is precisely 300 dpi, this is a not religious truth and must be chosen carefully), if it’s colour, even if just a little bit and you need that little bit coloured in the final image, you should think about it… as a A4 monochrome 300 dpi image is around 1 Mbyte, the same page colour at 300 dpi is 20 Mbyte in size… and that shows in the final PDF file and also the work the computer/reader has to do to show it;
2 - what one should use for the “digital” image format…
Bitmap images are known to be of 2 types, compressed and not compressed… the compressed ones can be compressed without losses (as a zip file is) and with losses…
Losses, says exactly what it says, compressing with losses implies that the final file has not the same information (much less actually) then the original had (or could have).
Jpeg is a loss compression format, if one needs to edit it and save it again, one gets more losses and so on… (it’s called the photocopy effect, if you make a photocopy of a original, then a photocopy of the photocopy and so on, at the 4th/5th generation you can not read anything from the original as so much information as been lost).
So good guidelines in digitizing projects indicate one should use a lossless format… this is traditionally today (still) TIFF.
3 - About PDF Annotator (
http://www.ograhl.com/en/pdfannotator/) I do not know if it can accept/interact with the Iliad notes… I would advise you to ask that in the Iliad forum here or contact the company who sells PDF Annotator directly.
You have other options too, namely Bluebeam PDF Revu (
http://www.bluebeam.com/web07/us/pro...revu/standard/) and the pen annotation plug-in for acrobat (
http://evermap.com/autoink.asp) , maybe one of those does what you are asking;
4 - no, ePub and the other eBook formats are for what it says, eBook formats, text and images and graphics formatted into a unity… hand notes are something really directed to be seen as an “image” and thus reflowing it’s not important or useful, so I would say, the best option today is PDF.
5 - to create TIFF files or even PDF files, I’m sure the software you have got with your scanner is more than enough to do it.
I’m saying this because you are just creating digital images, no OCR or anything more fancy, so the software you already have probably can do it perfectly (I do not know your scanner, so I do not know what software it’s sold with).
If you have access to it, my advice is: scan to TIFF with your scanner main software, than use Adobe Acrobat Pro to build your final PDF’s.
Here you can use less expensive PDF creator’s software or even free ones, per example PDFCreator (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDFCreator).
One more idea, I have pointed the standard procedures, but you can (I do not advice it) jump some steps, as per example digitize directly into PDF and thus see the PDF as the “digital” main copy.
Your choice of course.
Best regards,