Another option (if you need more pages per minute) might be to run them
through at 200dpi, but in landscape.

Graham Kitchen
Corporate Records Manager
Unified Western Grocers
5200 Sheila Street
Commerce, California 90040
Telephone:  (323)264-5200 Extension 4560
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Records Management Program 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Roach, Bill J.
> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 7:55 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: electronic imaging question
> 
> >>Digital Imaging Guidelines available online<<
> 
> 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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