Subj : Paper page to view file
To   : Mike Luther
From : Herbert Rosenau
Date : Sat Feb 02 2008 02:57 am

Am 30.01.08 14:54 schrieb Mike Luther

 ML> Thoughts please?

 ML> I have a client who 'inherited' about 4000 client files averaging
 ML> about 50 pages of paper per file.  These are all text based
 ML> records and do not seem to favor any kind of OCR scanning to
 ML> convert them to text/data files of any kind.  It appears that all
 ML> must be scanned visually, then saved in black and white as images
 ML> of the pages.  The file images look like they will have to be
 ML> targeted for hard drive storage, the names,indexing and ability
 ML> to organize the file names not being key issues at the moment.

When they are really paper then scan them simply using TAME.

TAME gives you the chance to store that in any format you likes, that starts 
with bmp, goes over tiff (much smaller than bmp, GIF or whatever you likes.

When it is only black/white then scan simply b/w. to save a lot of space.

Look in GFD or HOBBES to get one of the OCR tools available for OS/2 or grab 
the old textbridge (DOS) to OCR it.

TAME is a high quality scanner tool. It works with nearly all SCSI, some old 
parallel port ones and even on some (however not really all) USB scanners. It 
is a graphical too on top of SANE. Give it a try and play with its settings to 
get best (that means NOT neccessary highest!) resolution.

There is nothing that fits your needs for scanning better than TAME even under 
other OSes.

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