Saving my scanned documents as PDF or JPG?

[LuckyTaxi]

I'm starting to scan my credit card statements along with other important documents. Here's what I wanna know.
What are the pros and cons of saving the scanned item as a picture in JPEG format as to converting it to a PDF file?

For one thing a PDF file is much larger than a normal pic. Once I have allocated lots of these items, I will burn them
to CDs. Space is precious so I am leaning towards JPG.

 

[Ameesh]

i think jpg is better.

 

[vi edit]

One cool thing about PFD's is that you could have one BIG pdf file, and just keep adding to it and indexing the files and adding tables of contents.

You would just start a "year 2002" file, add in the scan, put it in the table of contents and then let it be until next month. One file, every months worth of statements. Seems more useful than a bunch of scans from each month dropped into a folder or something.

That's just me though.

 

[pulse8]

Something the PDF file will offer you over the JPG is the ability to have the entire bill in one file.

So if it's multiple pages, you don't have to have multiple files for it.

I don't know how much that would help you, but it's a pro of doing it through Acrobat.

 

[Rallispec]

is quality really important? you will lose some picture quality as a jpg

 

[Linflas]

Depending on how you are doing the scanning and the software you have available I think you can also create searchable indexed pdf files as well which could come in real handy if you need to dig through those bills at some future date.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

JPG'S... definitely.

nik

 

[TallBill]

why not scan in both for a bit.. when u go back to start referencing them, decide which way is better

 

[BCYL]

I would go with PDF's personally... From my experience documents saved as JPG's are a little fuzzy...

 

[Vinster]

Check out the TIFF format. It supports non-lossy compression and multiple pages.

 

[Danman]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
i think jpg is better.

 

[geekender]

Are you planning on editing the documents later? Is copyright protection important to you?