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

submitted 2 years ago by Atemu@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@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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[–] therealbabyshell@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How do you handle multiple pages?

[–] gmartin@lemmy.gmprojects.pro 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] therealbabyshell@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My multiple page documents such as bank statements are just uploaded as pdfs

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I also get my bank statements digitally; those are trivial to handle.

This is about scans of physical paper.

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