The TIFF versus JPG debate

[Don]

John Foust wrote:
> At 02:05 PM 8/16/2006, Julian Wolfe wrote:
>> Actually, I know of several duplex scanning systems that generate PDFs
>> directly.  My friend owns one and he scanned a large number of Atari
>> documents with it.
> 
> The public library in my pop. 7,000 town has a quite capable
> copier / scanner that automagically scans (or OCRs) and ftp's 
> to another machine, as TIFF or PDF or Word.

Wow!  That's cool!  I don't think ours (pop 400,000!) have
anything like that!  :-(