Question: We’re really a “TIFF shop” right now, with all our processes and workflow geared up for TIFF processing. We are thinking of converting our files to PDF. Why convert to PDF right now? It seems costly, time-consuming, and involves …
Document Compression: Lossy vs. Lossless Compression
Question: What is the difference between lossy and lossless compression ? How can I be sure that the converted documents look the same as the originals? Answer: Lossless compression does not change any of the original pixel values as captured …
Multipage Output
Question: We have been testing the OCR option ‘output Text’ as a Word RTF file, and PdfCompressor is outputting multiple ‘single page’ RTF files instead of a single document (as per the multipage PDF which is outputted). Is there a …
OCR Accuracy and Full-Text Search
Question: What accuracy rate can I expect when OCR’ing my corporate documents – mostly accounting and revenue earnings statements? Is OCR accuracy affected by the scanning resolution? Do I gain any significant advantage in using the most accurate setting the …
OCR
Question: Do we need to OCR our Company documents? We already field code them on 21 fields, like author, date, amount, State, etc. These are mortgage files that range in size from 50 to 400 pages. Most pages are scanned …
Compress File
Question: I would like to compress all my files, electronic and scanned, in various formats to PDF. Will the output files always be significantly smaller than the input files? Answer: Generally, most files are somewhat bloated and can be significantly …
OCR’ing PDF and TIFF files
Question: I am interested in OCRing PDF and TIFF files that are located in folders and subfolders. Is your product able to do this? At what speed, and without effecting daily workflow? Also, can it troll anything new that has …
OCR, ICR, and Bar Code Readers
Question: Do I need just OCR for my files or do I also need to be concerned with ICR and bar code readers? Answer: Most OCR (optical character recognition) engines do not automatically handle either handwritten character recognition (ICR) or …
PDF Optimize
Question: I want to optimize my PDFs for web viewing. What is the best way to optimize PDF documents? Answer: The major issues for handling large files on the Web would seem to be : i. compression, ii. web-optimization, iii. …
JBIG2 and PDF
Question: Does bitonal compression of scanned documents to JBIG2 format makes sense on its own or should such conversion be done as part of a general conversion to PDF format? Answer: JBIG2 is a new ITU-approved, international standard for compression …
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