01-25-2010, 09:34 PM
PDFs can subsume TIFF data and also use the same compression algorithms, so the size issue is likely a wash.
PDFs can be search-able and multipage, and index-able so that's an advantage. All those features, however depend on OCR, or some can be achieved via metadata that is saved into the PDF document itself.
There's also a set of standards defined that makes PDF archivable, although this may be an expensive proposition for personal use.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A
PDFs can be search-able and multipage, and index-able so that's an advantage. All those features, however depend on OCR, or some can be achieved via metadata that is saved into the PDF document itself.
There's also a set of standards defined that makes PDF archivable, although this may be an expensive proposition for personal use.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A