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Termyn8or -> RE: Just a friendly reminder about quotes with pics (4/7/2010 7:31:12 PM)
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I have a question about the pics. I have some old books and sometimes would like to scan them and post them. I guess they wouldn't be quotable, and OCR is not all that trustable. These are full pages from a regular full size books, like an encyclopedia or something like that. Other things I would like to scan in might have hand drawn calculus formulae or something like that. As such it would be easier just to get it to size full screen.
Now at the moment these files are about 600KB, and they are about 1200X1900. I scanned them in high resolution because I wanted to touch them up, just to increase the contrast ratio because the paper is getting old. However with that done I can probably cut the file size down to a third of what they are now. So let's say I get them down to 200KB. In comparison to an animated GIF, first of all the compression is better and these do not have multiple frames.
If I take them down to 800X600 and use maximum compression who knows how low I might get it, and still be ledgible.
Also I assume that normal HTML tags won't work for this, and due to the fact that it is best ledgible actually fullscreen, how would I go about posting something like that ? What's more I think it is seven pages, which all should be combined for continuity.
Actually I could also just forget about the images and enhance the contrast to the point where they go all black or something, which helps the compression process. The images on the pages are not important to the point, but avoiding the use of OCR my best choices are to make the images all white or all black and give maximum contrast to the text.
Anyway, is there a rough figure on just how big of a file is OK ? Because of course it has something to do with bandwidth and webspace. Is there perhaps some rough estimate we can go by ?
I already tried to post this article, but I used my own webspace and it was just a bunch of links. It would fare better right there in front of the reader. What are my best options ? I have quite a bit of printed material and books. I don't want to make a habit out of using pictures for text but sometimes that seems the best way.
Please advise.
T
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