Page Comparison

Selecting an appropriate image file format & specification 

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Source material characteristics / type	preferred image file formats (in preference order) 1	preferred image capture resolutions (in preference order)
Machine printed black and white text documents The documents include no meaningful color content. The documents do not include color graphics, or color or black and white reproductions of photographs. The document text is, in all cases, highly legible. The text is black or very dark printed on white or a very light colored paper. The texts do not include handwritten comments (e.g., pencil annotations).	TIFF format, bitonal (black and white); Group 4 compression. One image file per page-image. JPEG 2000 Part 1, Core Coding, Lossless Compression format or JPEG 2000 Part 1, Core Coding, Lossy Compression format, 8-bits per RGB channel. One image file per page-image.	600 pixels per inch (ppi), relative to the size of the physical item depicted. 400 ppi 300 ppi
Printed or handwritten documents with color content Items with meaningful color content, or printed continuous tone images Discolored documents where the page background has darkened and the contrast between printed or handwritten information and page background is low, e.g.: documents that include light pencil annotations.	Uncompressed, 8-bits per RGB channel TIFF images. One image file per item view. JPEG 2000 Part 1, Core Coding, Lossless Compression format, 8-bits per RGB channel. One image file per item view. Color JPEG images saved at a “high” or “highest” quality setting. One image per item view.	400 ppi 300 ppi
Works of art, color photographs original works of art printed reproductions photographic films lantern slides glass plate negatives color and toned monochromatic photographic prints	Uncompressed, 8-bits per RGB channel TIFF images. One image file per item view. JPEG 2000 Part 1, Core Coding, Lossless Compression format, 8-bits per RGB channel. One image file per item view. Color JPEG images saved at a “high” or “highest” quality setting. One image per item view.	preference order Reflective (e.g., prints) preference order transmissive (e.g., film) 1. 600 ppi 1. 6000 pixels in long dimension 2. 400 ppi 2. 4000 pixels or greater in long dimension 3. 300 ppi
Monochromatic, black and white photographs, or continuous tone black and white images	Uncompressed, 16-bits per single channel TIFF images. One image file per item view. JPEG 2000 Part 1, Core Coding, Lossless Compression format, 16-bits per single channel. One image file per item view.  Uncompressed, 8-bits per RGB channel TIFF images. One image file per item view. JPEG 2000 Part 1, Core Coding, Lossless Compression format, 8-bits per RGB channel. One image file per item view. Color JPEG images saved at a “high” or “highest” quality setting. One image per item view.	preference order Reflective (e.g., prints) preference order transmissive (e.g., film) 1. 600 ppi 1. 6000 pixels in long dimension 2. 400 ppi 2. 4000 pixels or greater in long dimension 3. 300 ppi
NOTE: ALL COLOR AND CONTINUOUS TONE BLACK & WHITE IMAGES should include embedded ICC display profiles, (e.g., sRGB, eciRGB, AdobeRGB, sGray).2

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For digital objects that include page-images and searchable text, the Harvard Digital Repository Service (DRS) requires deposits include one UTF-8 encoded plain text file for each corresponding page-image file.   The text file could be obtained from an OCR software or keyed.    OptionallyOptionally, ALTO layout xml file for each image could also be included. 

For example, a 10 5 page document deposited to DRS could include 10 5 image files sequentially named, and identically named (except for the file suffixextension)   OCR or keyed plain text files, and identically named (except for the file extension) OCR ALTO layout XML files.

    ├── 013814337
        ├── 013814337_0001.txttif
         ├── 013814337_00020001.tif
txt
        ├── 013814337_00020001.txtxml
        ├── 013814337_00030002.tif
        ├── 013814337_00030002.txt

        ├── 013814337_00040002.tifxml
        ├── 013814337_0004.txt
        ├── 013814337_00050003.tif
        ├── 013814337_00050003.txt
        ├── 013814337_00060003.tif
xml
        ├── 013814337_0006.txt
        ├── 013814337_00070004.tif
        ├── 013814337_00070004.txt
         ├── 013814337_00080004.tifxml
        ├── 013814337_0008.txt
        ├── 013814337_00090005.tif
        ├── 013814337_00090005.txt
        ├── 013814337_0010.tif
        ├── 013814337_0010.txt0005.xml

Naming and organizing files

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Prior to or after scanning documents, one needs to decide how to organize the information so that it can be easily navigated in digital form. Documents have their own organizational structure (individual titles, volumes, issues, chapters, etc.). These meaningful structural components of the scanned documents need to be reflected in the organization of the sequentially numbered scanned page-images arranged within named directories.

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