Do you store the scanned pages as .jpg, or .pdf, or something else?

By far the best image format choice for scanning black and white documents
is to use the TIFF format with Group 4 encoding. Group 4 is a lossless
compression scheme from the fax standards and can be created and read by
most any software that can process TIFF images. Set the black / white
threshold on the scanner software up to about 2/3 the way towards black to
make sure you pick up the lighter pencil marks and notes. You can keep your
logbook pages as individual tiff files or put the images into MS Word which
handles them well. I scan a lot of documents this way and put the images
into Word to group many together. 500kb jpg files of black and white
documents will become 20kb with Group 4 encoding.


Each page a separate file?

Yes, but then put it in a Word document and you can probably put two logbook
pages on each Word page.


Any special software?

Pretty much anything that will run your scanner. I like MS Photo Editor.


Did you build an index? If so, how?

One way would be to name the files based on their date of entry using a
YYYYMMDD.TIF naming convention.


Will all the pages of a typical spamcan log fit on a single CD?

On a floppy disk if you use Group 4 encoding


Any other hints?

Set you scanner to black & white, not greyscale, and not color, unless your
A&P makes his entries in crayon. Experiment a little for best results on
the black/white threshold settings. Use 300 dpi scanner resolution to pick
up those little scribbles clearly.

Let us know how it turns out.