Hi Bill.

Bill said:  "We are revising our standard to a standard 200 dpi with even 
lower dpi
permitted on high quality text documents."

I think you hit the nail on the head when you said high quality text 
documents.  Without a doubt you could probably get away with OCR'ing the 
document at this resolution.  However, in many cases when you are not 
working with originals, the quality may not be there.  I believe this is 
where you should use 300 dpi because it increases the performance of the 
OCR capability.  When we went through our testing, we found that on many 
documents the additional 100 dpi increased the quality of the OCR'ing by 
up to 5% better resolution.  This was especially true when the original 
was a faxed copy.

Bandwidth and storage space should always be taken into account, but the 
ability for the client to effectively search and find the document should 
override this process. 
 
John Annunziello
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