In general, images that are saved in the MDI file format take up less disk space than the same images saved as TIFF files. The image quality of an image saved in the MDI file format is comparable to that of the same image saved in TIFF.

When you are reviewing a Microsoft Office Document Imaging document, you can use annotations to mark up your document. You can add text as a note or comment, apply highlighting to important text, draw freeform text or shapes to circle text in question, or insert a picture in your document by using the buttons on the Annotations toolbar.

Picture added as an annotation

Highlighting applied to call out important information

Freeform shape drawn to call attention to a detail

Text added as a comment for a reviewer

You can:

• Move, resize, and remove annotations.
• Select the font and background color (if any) for text you add to your document.
• Choose the thickness and color of ink for the pens you use to add highlighting and drawings.
• Make your annotations a permanent part of your document.
• Print your document with or without annotations.

When you are viewing your document in the page pane (page pane: Displays the page that's selected in the thumbnail pane in a larger size, and enables portions of the page to be selected and copied.), you can select from the following options on the View menu:

• Single page   view and scroll through your document one page at a time.
• Continuous Page   view and scroll through the pages as one continuous document.
• Two Pages   view two pages side-by-side on the screen and scroll through your document two pages at a time.

• document layout information such as font type and font size is captured and stored along with the raw text
• pictures and simple tables are recognized
• text in East Asian languages is recognized