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Greetings all,

Just a quick question.  Most of the guidelines I have read suggest
scanning and storing documents at 300 dpi.  Just a thought, but I find
this a bit excessive unless there is a good chance that the documents
will be OCR'd in the future.  

We are revising our standard to a standard 200 dpi with even lower dpi
permitted on high quality text documents.  Bandwidth and storage
considerations are two reasons for the move.  Quality of the images is
still very sufficient to meet any evidentiary requirements.  Our forms
processing solution is based on the TIFF G3 standard of 200 dpi and does
an outstanding job of OCR, ICR, OBR and OMR at the 200 dpi range so not
sure I even can justify the 300 dpi setting for OCR purposes.  We write
images from our ECM to a Kodak DAW at both 200 and 300 dpi without
noticing a difference.

Any discussion?

Bill R

Bill Roach, CRM
Enterprise EDMS Coordinator
State of North Dakota
ITD/Records Management
701-328-3589

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