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		dtech on March 12, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Compressing and enhancing hand-written notes (2016... > My theory is that scanner manufacturers are deliberately choosing the JPG encoding profile that gets them the fastest result. This is more-or-less correct. The chips in the printers have a lot less power than your CPU, and the algorithms are a lot worse than those in Photoshop.

derefr on March 12, 2018 [–]

I'm surprised there aren't any high-quality JPEG encoder ASICs.

Would scanners benefit from just using some of the plentiful, cheap, excellent-quality H.264 encoder ASICs—and treating the output as HEIF?

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