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> 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. T
by dtech 9y ago
> 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 9y agoI'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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