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<STRONG>From:</STRONG> Steve Underwood (<A HREF="mailto:steveu@coppice.org?Subject=Re:%20Which%20scanners%20REALLY%20provide%2036%20bit%20output?%20HP?&In-Reply-To=&lt;3A38292F.CB4E5C8F@coppice.org&gt;"><EM>steveu@coppice.org</EM></A>)<BR>
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Stephen Williams wrote:
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<P><EM>&gt; And none of this is good news to someone who wants to create archival
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<EM>&gt; images of precious documents. We've been there, too, and the conclusion
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; is that for all but the most extreme cases, good ol' 12bit JPEG (and an
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<EM>&gt; environmentally controlled vault) are about as good as is worth the
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<EM>&gt; effort. If some hot new image processing technique comes to light, you
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<EM>&gt; are just going to have to accept the reality that you will need to open
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; the vault and rescan the document with the lighting/sensors required
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<EM>&gt; of the technique.
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<P>If you want to do archival storage of documents, do it on paper. This will
<BR>
greatly outlast any digital storage medium. CDs can fail in as little as a year
<BR>
(any make) despite the claims of 25 years for a pressed CD (which isn't that
<BR>
impressive anyway) and 70-100 years for CDR (which seems completely bogus). I
<BR>
live in a sauna, and things tend to fail fast, but even in dryer climates you
<BR>
can never rely of any digital medium. Some years ago in the UK we stored
<BR>
precious reels of data tape in a fully controlled environment to the makers
<BR>
(Ampex) spec. In just two years the layers of tape had coalesced so well we
<BR>
could saw through the block of tape like it was a block of wood. Of course such
<BR>
extreme failure doesn't always happen. However, since you cannot tell when it
<BR>
will, you cannot rely of these media. Close monitoring and recopying seems a
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useless precaution, when degradation can occur so fast.
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<P>Regards,
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Steve
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