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goerz on March 12, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Compressing and enhancing hand-written notes (2016...

Yeah, but I'm not archiving for the German or Swiss government. For scanned handwritten notes, JBIG2 still beats out anything else by an order of magnitude at least

striking on March 12, 2018 [–]

JBIG2 has been known to swap 6s and 8s. Use it at your own risk. There's a reason nothing uses it anymore.

goerz on March 12, 2018 | [–]

Is there an alternative that provides comparable compression?

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