scope:

This Technical Specification provides information to enable a user or EIM integrator to make an informed decision on selecting compression methods for digital images of business documents. It is designed to provide technical guidance to analyze the type of documents and which compression methods are most suitable for particular documents in order to optimize their storage and use. For the user, this Technical Specification provides information on image compression methods incorporated in hardware or software in order to help this user during the selection of equipment in which the methods are embedded. For the equipment or software designer, it provides planning information. This Technical Specification is applicable only to still images in bit-map mode. It only takes into account compression algorithms based on well-tested mathematical work.