Scanning Documents - which format?

[Ben]

I occasionally use a scanner - normally as a photocopier, but recently I'm having to scan and keep some A4 documents - these are usually just black and white photocopier typed sheets.

What format should I save these in? For the b/w stuff I've been saving at 150 dpi and as either a JPEG or PNG, as I'm a Fireworks boy

I've been looking to convert these scanned pages into a single PDF document as well - any advice on that front is appreciated as well.

Any recommendations or tips?

[robwhizz]

It really depends on what you want to do with them afterwards? TIFF is really the standard for archiving. It's lossless so you can edit and re-save without quality loss (and offers lossless compression too). You can also save multi-page docs to one multi-page file.
Of course this might just be overkill for you and jpegs are fine.

Looking at the pdf route, if your scanner software or fireworks can't export to PDF, then you can use CutePDF Writer which sets up a printer driver that outputs a PDF file.

For combining PDFs have a look at PDFSAM (PDF split and merge) - I use this a fair bit and it works well.

[Old-n]

When scanning text documents I scan straight into word at about 70 dpi
Making margins all 1/2