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From: poutnik on 8 Jul 2010 11:05
In article <op.vfilbei38w9ny9(a)jok2p1>, mohan(a)discuss.ions says...
>
> > in case of scanned documents,
> > great free option is DjvuSolo (Google),
> > using too little appreciated djvu format.
> >
> > About 350 page book,
> > scanned to per double page images,
> > results to 1.5 MB djvu file.
> > ( about 2-2,5 bytes per character even without OCR )
> >
> > It can be hold either compact, either per page,
> > browser plugins available.
> >
> >
>
> djvu is interesting, never knew this format! http://djvu.org/ is a nice
> site know it in detail, with links to samples.
>
> Just converted a 1028kb TIFF to a 326kb .djvu through the free online
> converter <http://djvu.org/any2djvu/> ! PDF of the same file is similar to
> TIFF in size. Last year I a lot of scanning into TIFF, and this surely
> would have reduced file sizes.

And for multipage scanning it is even better
( no matter if in compact or per page form )

More pages share some common encoded part,
It is similar appraoch as in solid archives,
known in RAR on 7-zip.

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Poutnik
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