OVERVIEW OF THE FILE FORMATS
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Overview of the file formats
In the following chart all file formats are listed. The standard
formats are listed in the first chart and the optional formats are
listed in the second chart. In the column „Read“ you can see,
which file format can be opened and read. In column „Write“
you can get the information which file formats can be created
after scanning or editing and which not.
Format Related
documenta-
tion
color
depth
com-
pres-
sion
Read Write remark
uncom-
pressed
CCITT/
3 1D
FAX
CCITT
G3
FAX
CCITT
G4
TIFF „Tagged
im-
age file format
– TIFF, Revi-
sion 6.0“,
Adobe Devel-
opers Associa-
tion
b/w
PackBits
yes yes
BMP Win-
dows/OS/2
Bitmap format
b/w uncom-
pressed
yes
yes
size limits apply
uncom-
pressed
PCX „PCX
format,
version 2.x-
5.x“, ZSoft
Paintbrush
b/w
RLE
run-
length
coded
yes
yes
size limits apply
T6X
„The T6X file
format“, Ratio
Entwicklungen
GmbH
b/w FAX
CCITT
G4
yes yes
RLC
no formal ref-
erence – dif-
ferent market
standards
b/w RLE
run-
length
coded
yes
yes
16 bit size limits
