Thoughts please?

I have a client who 'inherited' about 4000 client files averaging about 50
pages of paper per file.  These are all text based records and do not seem
to favor any kind of OCR scanning to convert them to text/data files of any
kind.  It appears that all must be scanned visually, then saved in black
and white as images of the pages.  The file images look like they will have
to be targeted for hard drive storage, the names,indexing and ability to
organize the file names not being key issues at the moment.

I'm not familiar with this in OS/2.  Outside people are suggesting that the
final storage 'format' for these images should either be .JPG or .PDF type
files.  For research and study, I do have a fully paid-for PMView tool set,
as well as a fully latest Lotus Smart Suite for OS/2 with all the latest
fixpacks applied, as well as the public release free version of TrueSpec
Graphis Pro.  That together with access to the SANE/TAME products which I
have never installed to date.

Although I'm not the party to be saddled with this project (PROJECT!) I
still need to know a couple things.  For test purposes I have both an HP
1120 and one other HP combination printer and scanner, the drivers for
which I think I have as part of the OS/2 MCP2 latest device drivers and so
on.  But that done, even USB and installed, plus supported, I guess,by
SANE/TAME or whatever, some other thoughts need answers before I even start
to learn more about this.

As best I can tell, from looking at things like this, a black and white
image of hand written and/or typed notes in each page, at a 300 DPI
resolution would amount to about a megabyte per page as an image.  That
noted, in a format such as .JPG, from what I think I see, it might be about
240K per page as a file of that image.  True, looking at a .PDF file of a
page of text and minor imaging, I see about 9K to 10K per page as a file of
that type.

But what, on the average, might I be looking at for file storage of
captured images of this, say 200,000 such pages?  Unless my mental math is
wrong at even 30,000K per page that is some 6 terrabytes of disk space.

Suggestions as to how one looks at this kind of thing in OS/2?  Knowing
what type of programs are already available as cited above.  And so on?

Thanks!


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