Re: "Standard" or "best" image format?

From: Stephen Williams (steve@icarus.com)
Date: Sat May 13 2000 - 09:05:57 PDT

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    njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk said:
    > .. and by far the fastest, though TIFF with no compression will be
    > quite fast too.

    We have scanners that do JPEG compression in hardware, making complete
    JFIF images. In that case, reformatting into TIFF (or even uncompressing)
    is a huge performance penalty and the native JFIF is the fastest/best format.
    Too bad SANE doesn't really support such things. 

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