How do you encode your paper scans? - eviltoast

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

  • flux@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    There is the DJVU format for this exact use case, but you’d need to convert them to, say, pdf for many use case. Its also a bit old and perhaps not maintained, soo…

    HEIF and other modern video encoders (HEIF=H265) should fare a lot better than JPEG, though.

    • Atemu@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Hm, DJVU seems like an ancient format and it also only supports JPEG and J2K as far as lossy formats go.

      I’d love to use more modern formats such as AVIF, HEIF or even WEBP but paperless doesn’t support some of them and images in general can only represent one page while many of my scans have multiple pages.