01-25-2010, 08:08 PM
I would ignore what that person told you. PDF can be a large format, but it can also be a very small format, it all depends on on the compression used.
Same thing sort of applies for TIFF. It's an image format and supports different compression methods. But not every application has good support for multi-page TIFF's, and I doubt they would be text searchable unless you converted them into a PDF and applied OCR software (which is what the ScanSnap is doing).
Same thing sort of applies for TIFF. It's an image format and supports different compression methods. But not every application has good support for multi-page TIFF's, and I doubt they would be text searchable unless you converted them into a PDF and applied OCR software (which is what the ScanSnap is doing).