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

submitted 2 years ago by Atemu@lemmy.ml 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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[-] kyle@infosec.pub 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I’ve never used paperless but just checked it out and it looks pretty neat. My first thought would be to scan documents in a higher resolution, let the OCR happen, then convert the file to a JPEG or something smaller after you’ve extracted the text.

I spent a few minutes looking at their wiki and it looks like it might be possible.

Like I said though, no experience with this software so I’m not sure that’d actually work.

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Interesting idea but I think I'd like to retain similar to original quality in case I wanted to redo OCR if/when Paperless' OCR improves in the future.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Correct. That's the currently maintained paperless project.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

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

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

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