The following table contains the formats that Accusoft Corporation considers most practical for the listed type of data, and can be used as a starting point. You can use a format with the appropriate bit depth and one that provides either the most efficient use of space, or the fastest loading and saving capabilities.
Bear in mind that the following table represents recommendations only. To make an informed choice, read about each format in more detail in the section File Formats Reference.
| Image Type | Recommended | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colors | JPEG, TIFF, PNG | |||||||||||||||
| Grayscale/many shades | TIFF, JPEG | |||||||||||||||
| Monochrome / high resolution | TIFF (CCITT Group 3 Compression and CCITT Group 4 Compression) | |||||||||||||||
| Noisy | Color: PNG, TIFF, JPEG | |||||||||||||||
| Lossless | GIF, TIFF, PNG, JPEG (Lossless JPEG Compression) | |||||||||||||||
| Lossy | TIFF (JPEG Compression), JPEG | |||||||||||||||
| Extra data to store | TIFF | |||||||||||||||
| Multimedia | PNG, GIF, JPEG | |||||||||||||||
| Multi-page | ||||||||||||||||
| Photographic images | JPEG | |||||||||||||||
| Internet images | GIF, JPEG, PNG | |||||||||||||||
| PC paint programs and/or graphics arts | TIFF, BMP | |||||||||||||||
| Document processing | TIFF, PDF, PS | |||||||||||||||
| Alpha Channel |
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