It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/QueenAng429 on 2024-12-23 14:17:38.

Scanning all my paper documents to have digital instead of paper, I have a pretty high end printer/scanner which does I think 1200 dpi scanning. This ends up with almost 4mb per page scanned. I know you don't need 1200dpi, but 1200 dpi let's you zoom in and see the fibers of the paper, I prefer to have the highest resolution if I'm going to destroy the paper copy so that I can print an equivalent original looking copy later if needed. Am I just going to be stuck with having PDFs over 100mb if it's 20 pages, or is there a way to losslessly compress that the scanner isn't going to do on its own?