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How do you encode your paper scans? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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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[–] [S] 1 point 3 years 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.

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