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How do you encode your paper scans?

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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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By ‘paperless’, y’all mean this one? https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/

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Atemu@lemmy.mlOP
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Correct. That’s the currently maintained paperless project.

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surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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Thanks! There’s a very interesting trail of dead projects to follow. But I got ngx working and it’s great so far.

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I for one am still waiting for paperless-ngnxn2-next-3.0_hypr.

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