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

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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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Most of mine are in tiff format which although larger seems to be better for text even when zoomed in

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

How do you handle multiple pages?

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

I use paperless-ngx. All my scans are in PDF format.

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