Hi Jan,

I was in fact just looking at that article again a few minutes ago. I
recalled that we had discussed that before briefly and that I saw it
somewhere, and then I remembered about the discussion about your archiving
system.

Thanks again!

Marcelo.

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Jan Böcker <jan.boecker@jboecker.de> wrote:

> On 11/05/2011 09:03 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I just bought a scanner and started to scan important documents as a
> > backup, and archiving them with meaningful metadata in orgmode files.
> > Then a question came to mind - what dpi to use? I'm not really savvy
> > when it comes to scanning or printing, and I want like a dpi that allows
> > me to reprint the document at an acceptable quality later if necessary,
> > but that also doesn't take that much space (600dpi pdfs take around 5MB).
>
> Hi Marcelo,
>
> I am using 300 dpi. Even the fine print on my cell phone contract is
> still comfortably readable at this resolution.
> I guess that about 150 dpi is sufficient for most documents, but I don't
> bother thinking about that on a case-by-case basis and just scan
> everything at 300 dpi.
>
> I do scan most documents in grayscale and only enable color when required.
>
> Said cell phone contract weighs in at 4.6 MiB for a 6-page grayscale PDF
> (about 770 KiB per page).
>
> Btw, my problem with big file sizes it not exactly disk space (which
> rapidly becomes cheaper with time) but the time it takes evince to
> display the document on my laptop :)
>
> If you are interested in the shell script I use to scan to PDF files,
> see
>
> http://www.jboecker.de/2010/04/14/general-reference-filing-with-org-mode.html#sec-5
>
> Hope this helps,
>  Jan
>