[ale] Document Imaging under Linux

[Jeff Hubbs]

"Pro" DMSses don't use any kind of lossy compression, so JPEGs are right
out.

- Jeff

On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 20:27, John Wells wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> I have a family member who'd like me to help design/develop or integrate a
> document imaging system under Linux.  He has a large amount of documents
> he'd like to scan in, store, and be able to retrieve easily for his
> company.
> 
> I'm very new to document imaging, so I'm not convinced I have a handle on
> everything that goes into it, but my layman's understanding is that it is
> simply converting paper docs into storable electronic docs.
> 
> So, first of all, is there anything out there already?  I'd hate to
> reinvent the wheel, and I'm sure this has been done before many times.
> 
> If there isn't anything out there, then what formats are available?  We're
> talking potentionally hundreds of thousands of documents here.
> 
> 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.
> 
> If you were approaching this project, what would you do? :-)
> 
> Thanks very much!
> 
> John
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