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From: Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net>
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Subject: Re: [Tiff] PDF/A vs. TIFF
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:30:05 +1000
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On Thursday 20 April 2006 07:03 am, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> >  to no benefit, particularly for mononcrome images (unless you need
> > to include searchable text or embed arbitrary metadata in your image
> > file).
>
>          MUCH smaller file sizes courtesy of JBIG2!   And the
> possibility of JPEG2000 for color images.      PLUS, the ability to
> do "image segmentation" to use the optimal compression for each
> component of a multi-element page (eg. text vs. pictures on a newspaper
> page).
>
>          And, as you note, such (pretty) important things as
> searchable text and metadata.
Interestingly, as I get more into the MDI format, I'm seeing support for so=
me=20
of these things (I don't know if it does segmentation, but I presume it mig=
ht=20
for at least some variations based on some scant docs/papers. There are tag=
s=20
for equivalent text and metadata.

If only it was documented :-)

Brad

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