JPG, Jpeg

folders in Windows and other operating systems. An icon file from one operating system may not work on another.

This compressed format is commonly used to pass images from one person to another across the Internet. All of the imaging programs packaged with your scanner support this format. JPG is a lossy format, which means to provide its highest degrees of compression, it removes some of the picture elements. These lost elements are generally only apparent if the image is later magnified. Some applications allow you to configure the degree of compression. The more the image is compressed, the more that will be lost from it. A lower compression will yield a higher quality image (in relation to the original).

MOV, Quick Time video format

This is a full motion video format.

PCD, Kodak Photo CD

This file format was developed by Kodak for digitizing and storing 35mm negatives or slides on CD.

PCX, PC Paintbrush format

An uncompressed format widely available on most PCs and all PCs equipped with Windows. PCX is generally more limited than BMP with regard to colors and resolution. Since it is an uncompressed format, it also can use a large amount of space.

RTF, Rich Text Format

This is a basic text format that does include some fonts and some other formatting commands. Many word processors support RTF and will allow you to migrate one RTF from program to program.

TIF or TIFF, Tagged Imaged File Format

Commonly supported for faxed images, this format can be used for a wide variety of images. Faxed images are black and white or gray-scale. Some software supports different versions of TIFF, so a TIFF saved in one program may not appear correctly in another program that supports TIFF.

TGA, Targa

One of the earliest PC graphics formats that was initially designed for a specific piece of hardware, support for which is now found in modern SVGA adapters. Targa files are rarely compressed. Targa supports image transparencies and overlays allowing the layering of images that can be seen through the various layers.

TXT, Text

This basic text format is generally available in any word processor program. This format does not allow fonts or any other formatting commands. ASCII Text is the most basic of all the TXT formats.

WRI, Write

Microsoft Write supports this text format.