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Originally Posted by grannynancy
While a lot of high end printers have scan to pdf a lot of home printers have a scanner that make jpeg copies..
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That has much more to do with software. Check the settings, might be buried but you should be able to change the format it saves too or what program it sends the image data to for further processing. In a lot of cases you can open the scanner from other programs like image editors.
If you're going to save as images in this case for black and white documents .gif believe it or not makes a perfect choice providing the software is decent. When you have images with large fields of the same color and have sharp lines like text it will produce a smaller file and preserve the lines of text perfectly without any artifacts typically found in .jpeg Because gif has limited color palette of 256 colors it's not suitable for photo type images and will produce much larger files for those types of images anyway. For documents though its ideal format.
I've attached a sample screen shot of this page. It could actually be smaller and still look as good but I didn't fiddle with the settings.
One other thing to consider if you're going to go through the trouble of doing this is to scan at a high resolution. OCR software works best when the image data has a lot of resolution. If in the future you ever want to convert these too real text you'll want high resolution sources to work from.
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