Subj : Paper page to view file
To   : Mike Luther
From : Bob Ackley
Date : Thu Jan 31 2008 07:24 am

Replying to a message of Mike Luther to All:

 ML> Thoughts please?

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 ML> But what, on the average, might I be looking at for file storage of
 ML> captured images of this, say 200,000 such pages?  Unless my mental
 ML> math is wrong at even 30,000K per page that is some 6 terrabytes of
 ML> disk space.

A computer screen full of characters is 1,920 bytes; a page is about 2.5 
computer
screens, or a bit over 5K bytes.  However, the vast majority of text documents 
are
not full pages of characters, there's a lot of whitespace (excluding spaces 
between
words) that doesn't have to be stored.  At very roughly 5KB/page, 200,000 pages 

would be about a billion bytes, or about a gig - somewhat less than your 
estimate. <g>

Note that when you're scanning in text documents you don't need to store them 
as
24-bit color images, plain ol' black and white will do - and it requires about 
1/24 the
space.

I have a W98 box I use for scanning documents (in b/w, altho' it's a color 
scanner).
I scan in a BMP image and use Xerox's Textbridge to convert that to an ASCII 
file.
When I get enough ASCII files I burn them onto a CD and transfer them to my 
main
OS/2 box.

 ML> Suggestions as to how one looks at this kind of thing in OS/2? 
 ML> Knowing what type of programs are already available as cited above. 
 ML> And so on?

 ML> Thanks!


 ML> --> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

 ML> Mike @ 1:117/3001

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