From: G6JPG@255soft.uk
On Fri, 29 May 2020 at 19:31:35, knuttle
wrote:
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>From your comments, it looks like most of your work is with the images
>of photo.
Actually, most are documents, but mostly single-page ones (pages from
censuses, baptism records, marriage registers, and the like).
>
>Probably about 90% of the things I do, is with the images of documents.
>I do a lot of genealogy work on my families. I have PDF files for
>documents like wills, census, obituaries, deeds, etc. Many of the PDF
>files have several pages of the documents. Many are text or
>handwritten document.
I can see the point for multipage documents. (Some of the picture
formats can hold multiple images too [and IrfanView is good at making
them], but viewers for them are less widespread, I think.)
>
>98% of my photo images are kept as jpgs. Most of my photo images are
>the photos I have taken over the past 50 years. The format is scanned
Ah, most of my photo ones are scanned ones from old photos I've
inherited.
>images and from from digital cameras. Another large portion comes from
>images of photos that I have received from others or inherited from my
>parents and grandparents.
>
>One of my prize photos that I have scanned, are of my great
>grandparents that were taken about 1870. I believe my prized document
>image is of a bible from 1817. With both the photo and bible, the
>images allow me to look at the document as much as I want without
>worrying bout damaging the original.
Indeed!
>
>I think we both have found the technique that works best for the
>information we are handling.
>
Agreed.
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