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compact while still preserving the original format of the document. TIFF files
are monsterously large  in comparison, and I would find them less desirable
myself. Also, there is no capability of indexing in TIFF (it is a image
format, after all) in contrast to .PDF files,which (I think) allow the
creation of an index. Another excuse for me to learn Acrobat in more detail,
I suppose.

Another person was mentioning flat files - that is a lot more work to do,
and while scanning 60+ pages in via Acrobat would require some time
investment, the probablily of my having enough time to type in 60+ pages of
parts is... zero.

  The other option is to scan the information in via OCR. Unfortunately,
OCR is only about 98% accurate - and depending on the format we scan to,
we still will need to deal with the fonts and formating issue that .PDF deals
with seamlessly.

  Any, I have dropped a line to John Parker regarding this... perhaps the first
thing to do is to get a copy of a couple of pages of the document in question
and perform a test of Acrobatization (yes, I just made that word up :^> )
and see what people think of the results.

72, Dave N4DJS


73, Dave N4DJS

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