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"Kennedy McEwen" <rkm@nospam.demon.co.uk> escreveu na mensagem
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> In article <4145c722$0$4767$a729d347@news.telepac.pt>, Robert Drake
> <TESTE@mail.pt> writes
> >What is the purpose of OCR'ing your bills and incoming documents?
>
> For the same purpose as you suggest scanning them in the first place -
> less space and clutter, in this case on the disk.
>
> > correct
> >document management is done by keeping an intact image copy of physical
> >documents.
>
> If you are really concerned about intact images of your documents then
> you can scan at high resolutions and store in lossless formats -
> something that this application does not do at all. So it actually
> fails in your first requirement!
>
> > You can be using TIFF format for archiving purpose but PDF is the
> >best way to archive if you want to maintain page size and easy printing
> >capabilities,
>
> Not at all. JPG and TIF are equally capable of being printed - indeed
> all your PDF file contains is a jpeg image!
>
> > besides indexing and additional embedded info for each
> >document.
>
> No additional information need be stored - indeed no additional
> information is stored in the PDF file other than the PDF wrapper itself,
> as examination of the files demonstrate. Just save the file with the
> scanned resolution in jpeg format at the compression ratio of your
> choice and you can get just as much data retention just as conveniently
> from any imaging package including most scanner software itself.
> >
> >My twain driver requires that I reset every setting for EACH page I scan.
By
> >using this program, this is bypassed and all I have to do is feed page
after
> >page until I'm done. I guess it's better than having to buy a new
scanner.
> >
> If you read the subject line you will note that it is Epson that is
> under discussion, and Epson software does not need to be reset for each
> page - in fact I don't know any software which does. Still, if you read
> the subject then you would never have posted this rubbish in the first
> place.
>
> >How can paper be more "reliable" than digital format?
>
> Simple really - how many of documents survive from Ancient Egypt?
> Ancient Greece? Rome? They all have paper relics but how many of your
> CD's will still be around or hard drives still spinning, let alone the
> technology available to access them in 5000 years time?
>
> >The opposite is the
> >reason why every company is now turning to digital document management
> >resources.
>
> For true archival purposes no company is trusting digital document
> management. The reason it is used is because true archiving is rarely
> necessary in a transient business environment. I am quite happy that
> the title deeds to my property are archived on paper and would have no
> intention of transferring them to digital media for archiving even if it
> were legally acceptable.
>
> >For my personal use, I think the kind of tools such as this one
> >can suit perfectly well my basic personal document management needs. I
think
> >that hard disk space is not even an issue as disk space is growing and
> >growing proportionally inverse to its cost. It seems that we might well
> >reach a point where burning to CD or DVD might even be unnecessary as it
> >will all perfectly fit on tera-sized drives soon...
> >
> >If something doesn't fit you does it mean it doesn't fit anyone else?
> >
> No but just because you find something useful for one purpose, don't
> throw it around as a solution for another problem entirely. This
> application, if that is what you want to call it, does not address the
> question raised by the original poster, or any subsequent poster, in
> this thread.
> --
> Kennedy
> Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
> A lovely little thinker, but a ah heck when he's pissed.
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