Scanner resolution- for web and printing ?

[sailaway]

I would like add selected parts of old machine tool sales brochures to my site, but was also thinking of offering downloads of complete brochures for a fee. The question involves how best to scan these one time for both purposes. In other words, 72 dpi is good enough for viewing on a CRT screen, but is not as good a quality as ideal for printing. Also, my HP 5200C scanner is just too slow for doing hundreds of pages of scans. Also, should the brochure pages be scanned in JPEG or PDF file ?[nbsp][nbsp]Any suggestions on how to do this in an effecient but quality oriented manner ?[nbsp]

[Matt]

I would go the PDF route to conserve memory, simplify printing on behalf of the user, and preserve the layout.
-Matt

[Jeff]

Making PDF files will allow you to gather the pages and will allow people to zoom and print with ease.[nbsp][nbsp]

But to save memory and more importantly bandwidth, the next question is how to convert some of the text sections to text.[nbsp][nbsp]I know that there must be a few scan->PDF solutions which also do OCR in the process: do any of these work well?