[sane-devel] Pixma future
Olaf Meeuwissen
paddy-hack at member.fsf.org
Wed Nov 25 10:45:48 GMT 2020
Hi Andrea,
Andrea Croci writes:
> [...] I have always wondered why the Windows programs make a 180 kB
> pdf of the same page for which xsane made a 7MB file (don't know if it
> has changed in the last few years since I'm scanning from command
> line).
That's probably because those Windows programs embed the images as JPEGs
and xsane embeds PNMs. Needless to say, JPEGs suck for text documents.
Hope this helps,
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