What is the best scanning format?

Question

I have about 200 pages of handwritten notes of mathematics theory and formulae which I want to upload on my website by scanning.
What is the best scanning format? .pdf or .jpeg? .pdf takes more memory. Is there any advantage of .pdf in terms of better printing quality or anything else?

Answer 1

Here is a step-by-step tutorial on the adobe website which tells you how to reduce the file size. If you have the right program (acrobat professional), you should be able to change the format in which each scanned page is stored to JPEG (if you like). Thus, you will have a pdf file which is really a grouping of JPEG compressed pages. I download magazines and other pdf files online -- typically a 100 page magazine (JPEG compressed) can be reduced to around 5-10 megabytes in size.



http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/acrobat/articles/acr7optimize.html



If you dont want people to download the whole document at once (to conserve bandwidth), you can upload the document in 4-5 pdf files than as one file.

Answer 2

The possibility of joining multiple pages in a single file is a big advantage of PDF, there's no way to do so for JPEG. However, you could group the latter using ZIP, for example.



In my opinion, PDF is better suited for this purpose, intuitively: JPEG was intended for photographs (that's the letter P), you can note that e.g. line graphics looks terrible in this format. PDF has ever been used for printed text (Portable Document Format); the possibility to scan into PDF is quite young but popular for the same purpose: multi-page text with occassional graphics.



It would be absolutely best if you found some possibility to scan into DjVu. This is a very young format but invented and optimized for scanned text from the very beginning. It usually produces smaller files and even better-looking output than PDF. The only disadvantage is that there are not many programs to handle it by now but as far as I can say, this is the future of book & notes scanning.

Answer 3

Pdf would be better for printing, but jpeg would be best for online viewing, because of it's smaller size.

Answer 4

The scanning software which got here inclusive of your scanner. once you run it to operate your scanner, would quite be proposing you with an option along with settiing, or a window in which you may replace the length of the photo, decision (dpi), color/B-W and also the shape of output..even if BMP, JPG, TIF, GIF or the different. look on the exhibit heavily. in certain circumstances it truly is in hassle-free words on the clicking of the button, and infrequently after the preview has been achieved.

Answer 5

They both have their own qualities, professor.



PDF is more dynamic compared to JPEG and you will have much more controle over a lot of extra funtionality as you have discovered for yourself.



JPEG is more suitable for you if speed (page loading time) or size matters to you.



:)



Good luck professor and let me know if there's anything else.