David, I was over 400 messages behind in Hardhats due to a trip to
Mississippi and did not get all of these messages read before I started
replying. I am also sure that GIMPshop is an upgrade to plain old GIMP.
The windows version of GIMPshop is only in beta as far as I know.
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Sommers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 3:26 PM
Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] Imaging Disk requirements?
Hey - I already said Gimp. Where's my MOD points?
j/k, and it runs in linux, windows, mac, etc etc.
David Sommers, Architect | Dialog Medical
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin
Toppenberg
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 3:01 PM
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Imaging Disk requirements?
James,
I like your idea about GIMP. I am going to post about this on another
thread too.
Thanks
Kevin
On 10/10/05, James Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kevin,
You could try GIMPshop which is available at www.gimp.org. It is free
and
powerful. There is only a beta version for Windows XP, but it runs on
Mac
OS X. I am not clear if it runs on Linux although the parent of
GIMPshop is
GIMP which I am sure runs on Linux. I can only assume that GIMP and
GIMPshop have ways of automating the processing of "images" so you can
increase contrast, apply an unsharp mask, and reduce resolution in
batch
mode.
I think you documents will be much more readable if you use 8 bits per
pixel.
Jim Gray
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Toppenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Imaging Disk requirements?
James,
Thanks for the info. I had intended 1 bit per pixel. But your advise
is appeciated.
I have yet to get the tools in place to let me do all this image
manipulations.
Thanks
Kevin
On 10/10/05, James Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Since no one has apparently discussed these issues on this topic I
will
> point some things out.
>
> Kevin, By BW do you mean gray scale (8 bits per pixel) or bitmapped
(1 bit
> per pixel)?
> I assume you mean gray scale. You can very good documents this way.
> First
> scan a document at 300 dpi or higher, then increase the contrast of
the
> image, then apply a good unsharp mask to the document. Then you can
> reduce
> the resolution down to 150 dpi. If you take these steps you will
end up
> with documents that are *MORE* readable than documents scanned at
300 dpi
> and left that way. The steps could be automated so that it works
well.
> Also jpeg compression can give you documents that are 10% of the
size of
> the
> uncompressed image with little loss in such "images".
>
> Jim Gray
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nancy Anthracite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 9:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Imaging Disk requirements?
>
>
> > The OCR programs I have used require 300 dpi, and I suspect that
might
> > be
> > something that should be considered for the future as it may be
that not
> > only
> > typed but hand written notes could be loaded right into the
database in
> > a
> > compact fashion and the scanned images archived for backup
purposes
> > only.
> >
> > On Wednesday 28 September 2005 08:49 am, Mike Schrom wrote:
> > I think fax scans are lower about 150 dpi, but still, usually,
readable.
> > That's a factor of four smaller file size, but even at 300, your
figures
> > yield about 25,000 charts per terabyte. That's four 250 gig hard
drives
> > at about $50 each (on sale).
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > Kevin Toppenberg wrote:
> >> As I get close to completing a document imaging system that uses
> >> standard VistA Imaging code, I have wondered what use of the
system
> >> will do to my disk space.
> >>
> >> Does anyone know what typical scanning resolution is (300 dpi?),
and
> >> how much disk space this would take in BW, compressed as JPG
file? I
> >> am guessing about 150k per image (image size 8.5x11 inches). If
I did
> >> my math right, that would be about 6,600 images per gigabyte.
Many of
> >> my charts have about 200 pages in them, so this would be about 25
> >> complete charts per gigabyte.
> >>
> >> I am asking this because I am not planning on implementing the
> >> background processor that archives images off of the magnetic
disks
> >> into an optical jutebox. It seems that disk drives are growing
in
> >> size fast these days.
> >>
> >> Any thoughts?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Kevin
> >>
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