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qilin:

Just curious, what resolution and picture type you guys use? For text, B&W 200dpi seem to be good enough, grey scale looks better but results in much larger file size.

What are we talking about here ?  

CT scan reports ?  or Images of a PA/Lateral Chest xray ?

I scan everything in 200dpi Black and White with embedded OCR text.  I am looking at a one page note from a consultant that is 34K. It is perfect to read and I can highlight, copy and paste the text of the note for my use. 

My files are scanned in PaperPort 11 and I use the "PDF searchable" file option that is available for those PaperPort users that have Omnipage.  I have Omnipage 15.  

I *still find* PaperPort 11 tends to give me problems. It seems to bog the computer down more than it should.  PaperPort 9 was "less networkable" but I don't need PaperPort to do my network filing anymore as Synapse does my filing (into Synapse) or to the patient's folder (when it doesn't need to be in the patient's chart).

I really like my PDF searchable files.  I am looking into using Acrobat 7 Pro to batch convert my PDF images to PDF with OCR'd text.  I don't find Acrobat's OCR is as good as Omnipage, but it'll do. 

I am looking into the option of "batch converting" my 17,400+ .pdf files from PDF images to PDF searchable (PDF files with OCR'd text embedded).  I was able to do it with Acrobat 7, but I didn't like how it changed the dates of my files.  I am not sure if I can retain the .pdf's original date.

Here is a picture of my Scan Profiles in PaperPort 11. 

80 % of sheets are Profile 1 (top of the above list).  10% are Profile 2.  7% are Profile 5. 2% are Profile 3 1% are profile 4.

Here is a bit of a breakdown of my incoming documents and how I use my PaperPort profiles to make nice B and W files. 

:)