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How do you encode your paper scans?
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I use JPEGs in a PDF. They can be mediocre quality. Using an OK scanner makes a big difference. It's good enough!
I'm required by law to keep physical paper copies for 35 years. So my parallel solution is a cursed filing cabinet, and several crates that describe the content of the filing cabinet. Its ugly, but saves me tons on data archiving, I guess?
WDYM? The lossless scans SANE produces themselves subjectively look very good. My only issue is the transcoding to lossy formats I want to do in order to save >3/4 of the space.
Oh, it's common in my country to use a smartphone to 'scan' documents by actually just taking a lousy photo of them. It's so prevalent that when you tell someone to do a scan they usually do this instead.
I bought a cheap canon scanner for 50$ and it's pretty perfect for legal documents. A little slow maybe. I use SANE, then do lossy compression too.
In rare situations I'd then post process the PDF to even worse quality using ghostscript, for example when a foreign visa application form requires a scan of a really long document, but doesn't accept sizes over 2MB.
@Saigonauticon @Atemu A scanner is a camera. Why complicate things?