Scanning to pdf vs tiff
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 6:10 am
Hello,
I am working on building scanning into my application. I have the application built to handle tifs and pdfs, so I am trying to decide which type to use for scanning. In your opinion, is it better to scan documents as pdf files or tif files? I have used the functionality that you provided in the Twain Scanning Demo application and I can't see much difference between the file types. It does appear that navigating through the pages of a pdf file takes slightly longer, however the compression of pdf files, especially color files, is much better with pdf's than tif's. In other words, pdf files appear to have a much smaller file size than tiffs.
Do you know of any other differences? What would you choose if you had to make this decision?
Thanks,
Reagan
I am working on building scanning into my application. I have the application built to handle tifs and pdfs, so I am trying to decide which type to use for scanning. In your opinion, is it better to scan documents as pdf files or tif files? I have used the functionality that you provided in the Twain Scanning Demo application and I can't see much difference between the file types. It does appear that navigating through the pages of a pdf file takes slightly longer, however the compression of pdf files, especially color files, is much better with pdf's than tif's. In other words, pdf files appear to have a much smaller file size than tiffs.
Do you know of any other differences? What would you choose if you had to make this decision?
Thanks,
Reagan