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yunti · 09-13-2009, 03:00 PM

Thanks for your reply. Greatly appreciated.

I had thought 300dpi might be about the right size. My notes are mainly monochrome sometimes with a bit of red text etc.

(I agree OCR isn't an option here - it's mainly equations anyway so it looks like it will have to be some sort of image storage)

Curious as to why you suggested TIFF, rather than JPEG PNG etc..?(I don't really know the pros and cons of each of them)

The PDF annotator programme you mentioned looks superb and will be excellent with my tablet pc. There is a PDF plus notes function in the Iliad will this be able to work with PDF annotator?

Is there any software you recommend for automatically scanning in each sheet in TIFF format and putting this into a PDF? Or am I best scanning in TIFFs first and then converting to PDF? What software should I use to convert to TIFF to PDF?

Lastly I take it the epub format isn't best here as that is more to do with reflowable text which this won't be?

Thanks for your help.

09-13-2009, 03:00 PM	#3
yunti Enthusiast Posts: 29 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2008 Device: None	Thanks for your reply. Greatly appreciated. I had thought 300dpi might be about the right size. My notes are mainly monochrome sometimes with a bit of red text etc. (I agree OCR isn't an option here - it's mainly equations anyway so it looks like it will have to be some sort of image storage) Curious as to why you suggested TIFF, rather than JPEG PNG etc..?(I don't really know the pros and cons of each of them) The PDF annotator programme you mentioned looks superb and will be excellent with my tablet pc. There is a PDF plus notes function in the Iliad will this be able to work with PDF annotator? Is there any software you recommend for automatically scanning in each sheet in TIFF format and putting this into a PDF? Or am I best scanning in TIFFs first and then converting to PDF? What software should I use to convert to TIFF to PDF? Lastly I take it the epub format isn't best here as that is more to do with reflowable text which this won't be? Thanks for your help.