RE: Re: OT Document archiving...continued

["Brian G. Reynolds" <brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks for this Neil.

Where are you changing these settings? I have changed the settings in the
settings option in HP Director but nothing has changed?

When I bought this item I was under the influence that you could scan to a
.pdf! one of the reasons for buying it.

I know you can "print to file" and this creates a .pdf but can
not do this from the glass(?).

I will certainly look for PP9, thanks.

B.

-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Fuller [mailto:neil@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 06 February 2004 22:41
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: OT Document archiving...continued


Brian

My guess is that you're scanning in colour (24 or 36 bit colour depth?)

It depends on what is being scanned but most of my documents are black and
white or monochrome - Ideal if it's things like printed pages, manuals etc

Also, resolution will have a big impact - I scan at 300dpi. I tried lower
but when I scan a poor quality fax and then enlarge it to read the order
number or somesuch, I found that lower resolutions lost too much detail.

Typical A4 scan in black and white at 300 dpi, saved as a PDF is about 35
to
40kb

A recent 'highest quality' scan (1200dpi,36 bit colour) of a 10x8 photo was
IIRC about 40MB!!!

Finally, consider upgrading to PP9 - You can scan directly to PDF within
PP9. Also, PP9 has some rudimentary tools for altering scanned PDF docs.

HTH

Regards

Neil

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian G. Reynolds" <brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxx;
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx;
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 7:37 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: OT Document archiving...continued


> Sorry to bring this up again.....
>
> I am now a proud owner of an HP scanjet 5550c with an ADF.
>
> It comes with PaperPort 8 and some other programs I have not yet
played
with....
>
> So far I have managed to scan in some documents and save them as
PaperPort
documents, and they are HUGE!
>
> I then tried another way and they were about 500KB, in the right
direction, I then played with the "scan to file" button which
saves the
document to an Adobe PDF file of slightly bigger (by a couple of kilobits)
file.
>
> What would you experienced users recommend I use? I am not too worried
about HDD space but want as small as possible but still readable!
>
> I am still experimenting but thought some of you might have already
done
what I am trying to do?
>
> Thanks,
>
> B.