[ale] Document Imaging under Linux

[David Corbin]

On Sunday 14 September 2003 20:27, John Wells wrote:
> Guys,
>
> My first thought was to store them as JPEGs in the filesystem and then
> store their ids in a database, allowing the filesystem to handle the
> loading and storing of the files.  Course, JPEG is just the smallest
> fairly good quality format I'm aware of, and I'm sure I'm overlooking some
> better ones.

Most document management systems probably use TIFF.  TIFF has a special black 
and white mode and a compression alorithm that is "optimized" for this.
-- 
David Corbin <dcorbin at machturtle.com>