IMPACT Online Storage Estimator

This tool will estimate the storage required for the images and OCR output files made within your digitisation workflow.
Please fill out all relevant fields and then click the 'Estimate' button.

Please leave any questions or feedback with the IMPACT helpdesk at: www.impact-project.eu/helpdesk. If you would like to use a version of the IMPACT Storage Estimator with a wider range of functions, tutorial and background notes, please use our off-line version, which can be found on the IMPACT website at http://www.impact-project.eu/taa/strat/pilot-tools/.

Although great care was taken in producing this storage estimator, you use it at your own risk. IMPACT can not guarantee the absence of errors or omissions in this tool. If you find any mistakes, please contact the authors at impact@bsb-muenchen.de.

Master Files
Please enter the number of images for your digitisation project:
Please choose the approximate publication size of your source material:
Please choose the file format and the according compression method you plan to use for the master files:
Please choose the resolution (ppi) you want to use for your master files:
Please choose the bit depth (= colour depth) you want to use for your master files:
Expected size of the Master Files in MB:
Derivative Files for Web
Please choose the file format and the according compression method you plan to use for the derivative files:
Please choose the resolution (ppi) you want to use for your derivative files:
Expected size of the Derivate Files in MB:
OCR Result Files
Please choose the file format you plan to use for the OCR result files:
Expected size of the OCR Files in MB:

Expected size of your collection
Megabyte (MB):
Gigabyte (GB):
Terabyte (TB):
Number of CDs (700 MB):
Number of DVDs (4,7 GB):
Number of Linear Tape-Open 1 Native (100 GB)*:
* Divide the output in half, if compression is used.

Project related information
Institution / Company:
Project name:
Digital stock description:
Calculated by:
Calculation date:

This tool is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License:

Provided for the IMPACT Project by the Munich DigitiZation Center (MDZ) at the Bavarian State Library, www.muenchener-digitalisierungszentrum.de

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IMPACT Online Storage Estimator

Master Files

Derivative Files for Web

OCR Result Files

Expected size of your collection

Project related information