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Hi,

We are using the Fujitsu 6130Z scanner. Any tips on scan settings that will yield the best results while maintaining reasonable file sizes?

150-250 DPI Black/White

If you use pencil a lot, use gray scale instead of black white. Also, you probably got Acrobat Standard with your scanner. You can use Optimize Scanned PDF in that action menu to compress, straight, and OCR all of your scans.

Thank you Sandeep. Do people not use color because of the resulting file sizes? Or is it some kind of EHR regulation?

Hard drive space is cheap...

Never really had a need for color. It's up to you, most medical charts we have are printed from a Laser printer which is black and white anyways. Occasionally we will find blue ink on the paper but we are okay with not preserving the integrity of the pen ink.

Also, a lot of people use ScanSnap which auto-detects color and switches appropriately and increases the resolution if there is an image.