[Lowfer] Re: Picture file conversion problem

[Peter Barick]

>>> dibene@usa.net 06/06/02 11:58AM >>>

Have a look at DjVU. Don't remember off-hand the URL, but
Google will surely be of help. Nothing beats it for B/W compression.
And it is free.

73  Alberto  I2PHD
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I found this at the DjVu home site.
http://www.djvuzone.org/ 

"DjVu] ... 10 times better than existing methods such as JPEG and GIF
for color documents, and 3 to 8 times than TIFF for black and white
documents. Scanned pages at 300 DPI in full color can be compressed down
to 30 to 100KB files from 25MB.. Black-and-white pages at 300 DPI
typically occupy 5 to 30KB when compressed. This puts the size of
high-quality scanned pages within the realm of an average HTML page
(which is typically around 50KB)."

First i've heard of this format. I haven't tried it. Possibly others
can.

Peter