Selfhosted

40220 readers

1428 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.
No spam posting.
Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.
Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.
Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).
No trolling.

Resources:

selfh.st Newsletter and index of selfhosted software and apps
awesome-selfhosted software
awesome-sysadmin resources
Self-Hosted Podcast from Jupiter Broadcasting

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

How do you encode your paper scans? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

33 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I use JPEGs in a PDF. They can be mediocre quality. Using an OK scanner makes a big difference. It's good enough!

I'm required by law to keep physical paper copies for 35 years. So my parallel solution is a cursed filing cabinet, and several crates that describe the content of the filing cabinet. Its ugly, but saves me tons on data archiving, I guess?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Using an OK scanner makes a big difference.

WDYM? The lossless scans SANE produces themselves subjectively look very good. My only issue is the transcoding to lossy formats I want to do in order to save >3/4 of the space.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Oh, it's common in my country to use a smartphone to 'scan' documents by actually just taking a lousy photo of them. It's so prevalent that when you tell someone to do a scan they usually do this instead.

I bought a cheap canon scanner for 50$ and it's pretty perfect for legal documents. A little slow maybe. I use SANE, then do lossy compression too.

In rare situations I'd then post process the PDF to even worse quality using ghostscript, for example when a foreign visa application form requires a scan of a really long document, but doesn't accept sizes over 2MB.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@Saigonauticon @Atemu A scanner is a camera. Why complicate things?

load more comments (9 replies)

load more comments (10 replies)