cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1800585
I assume many of you host a DMS such as Paperless and use it to organise the dead trees you still receive in the snail mail for some reason in the year of the lord 2023.
How do you encode your scans? JPEG is pretty meh for text even at better quantisation levels (“dirty” artefacts everywhere) and PNGs are quite large. More modern formats don’t go into a PDF, which means multiple pages aren’t possible (at least not in Paperless).
Discussion on GH: https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/discussions/3756
I’ve got a USB scanner that (presumably) just sends a bitmap. It’s up to the software instructing the scanner to convert that bitmap into other formats.
Even if it did do that itself, how would it encode the images inside the PDFs? It’s the same issue, just that I wouldn’t get to choose.