For anybody who goes the OCR (optical character recognition) be aware that unless you are using a very excellent (and expensive) OCR product, you will have to do some scrupulous editing to make sure there are no typos or misspelled words.
For anybody who goes the OCR (optical character recognition) be aware that unless you are using a very excellent (and expensive) OCR product, you will have to do some scrupulous editing to make sure there are no typos or misspelled words.
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JPEG and GIF both are good.
Andy, in case you're tempted - don't use jpeg for this project, it introduces artifacts and GIF isn't suited either.
TIFF is great and PNG.
If you are going to manipulate the images to try and improve clarity, etc, you may wish to scan at a higher resolution than 300DPI, then manipulate that then scale back down to 300DPI - really depends on whether you intend to manipulate the images or not.
The only way to get crisp text is to use OCR & then spend a small amount of time in a text editor to check text and any other artifacts that have been produced. I don't normally disagree with Gary but in this case I do about the level of quality of the free OCR's or the one supplied with our printer.
Design is thinking made visual.
OCR doesn't really apply here - the OP wants to preserve the original text, typeface and appearance - as legibly as possible.
Use Gif.
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