I'm currently writing an app using the Wang/Eastman/Kodak OCX group. It needs to handle full scanning capabilities, including OCR, and archiving the scanned documents. The scanning and OCR componets weren't to difficult to incorporate, however when it came time to store the scanned documents I ran into a storage size problem. The problem being, I have to use TIFF format to store the documents in their original size, colour, and multiple pages. No matter what compression method I use, the size of the files are completely unacceptable!

What I found however is that the scanning software that came with the HP scanners offered a save type for Compressed TIFFs, which have a very reduced size compared to normal TIFF files. My question is, what compression methods do they use to make the files so small??

Anyone with info on this or any other ideas to keep my files sizes please respond.

Thanks.