(Archived) Need advice regarding scanned image

[Vance 38]

I decided to scan in some cards (like my AAA card) and I chose jpeg as the format. In the desktop client it looks great, scales perfectly to the open screen size. But on my phone and iPod Touch it is too big and I have to scroll around. Is there a solution to this? Is there a dpi I need to use, or a different format?

[engberg 89]

You should be able to pinch/zoom the view on the iPod to see the image at a better size, but you could also consider scanning at a lower resolution. Anything above 2 megapixels can get a bit unwieldy, and doesn't really give any better recognition quality.

[Vance 38]

Thanks, I will definitely lower the resolution for these types of things. But just to give useful feedback, on my iPod Touch, it would pinch to resize and then "stick" that way, but on Android it would not pinch at all, and tapping it did not pull up the plus/minus button.

[engberg 89]

Thanks for the report about Android. There's a menu option to switch between "scaled" and "full size" images, but it appears that the scaled version still requires scrollbars to view on some phones.

[BasieBand 42]

Just the opposite problem on my Palm Pre. The jpeg image is there, but too small to read. Pinch/zoom does not work at all.