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And destroyed the legal viability of several scanned document archives in the progress. If you have any contracts/legal binding documents that were archived wit

And destroyed the legal viability of several scanned document archives in the progress. If you have any contracts/legal binding documents that were archived with this technology, you may appeal them at any time.

Arwill 5y ago
In retrospect, this gives me validation of why i always disliked to scan documents to PDF instead of to just JPEG. But large document archives are traditionally done with TIFF, and should still be done like that.
- OneTimePetes 5y ago
  So true, should store the unaltered raw-data-picture as scanned. Its actually nightmarish. A silent corruption of court-documents, stored plans and land-records, patent-filings with the originals often permanently gone. Contracts that can be nulled and voided by a hostile party on this basis by simply challenging the document on basis of the archiving process. A error so deep and systematic, it even mangled the birth certificate of the us-president when it was scanned. The whole affair is a huge advertisement for keeping written records and avoid digitization, same as voting machines.
- mindslight 5y ago
  A raster image in a PDF uses the same exact JPEG compression, most likely. I didn't like any of the existing Linux scanning solutions, so I built my own paperless management tool. I was evaluating different compression algorithms for keeping authoritative masters and was eyeing JPEG2000 (I hate JPEG artifacts). But in the end I decided to go with FLIF, which is lossless. Despite its lower amount of battle testing, being lossless allows me to run a sha256 on the decompressed image and know that it is exactly what I had scanned in.
mindslight 5y ago
I believe I have actually been bitten by this bug, or something very similar. I had an IRA transfer go completely awry because the check was sent to the wrong PO Box. I typed out the transfer form with an address with the digit "5" (xournal is awesome). When I was tracking down the problem, the rep said that the digit on the transfer form was unquestionably a "6". Despite how farfetched it seems, it seems like their document management system perfectly changed that digit in this manner.

Arwill 5y ago

In retrospect, this gives me validation of why i always disliked to scan documents to PDF instead of to just JPEG. But large document archives are traditionally done with TIFF, and should still be done like that.

OneTimePetes 5y ago
So true, should store the unaltered raw-data-picture as scanned. Its actually nightmarish. A silent corruption of court-documents, stored plans and land-records, patent-filings with the originals often permanently gone. Contracts that can be nulled and voided by a hostile party on this basis by simply challenging the document on basis of the archiving process. A error so deep and systematic, it even mangled the birth certificate of the us-president when it was scanned. The whole affair is a huge advertisement for keeping written records and avoid digitization, same as voting machines.
mindslight 5y ago
A raster image in a PDF uses the same exact JPEG compression, most likely. I didn't like any of the existing Linux scanning solutions, so I built my own paperless management tool. I was evaluating different compression algorithms for keeping authoritative masters and was eyeing JPEG2000 (I hate JPEG artifacts). But in the end I decided to go with FLIF, which is lossless. Despite its lower amount of battle testing, being lossless allows me to run a sha256 on the decompressed image and know that it is exactly what I had scanned in.

mindslight 5y ago

I believe I have actually been bitten by this bug, or something very similar. I had an IRA transfer go completely awry because the check was sent to the wrong PO Box. I typed out the transfer form with an address with the digit "5" (xournal is awesome). When I was tracking down the problem, the rep said that the digit on the transfer form was unquestionably a "6". Despite how farfetched it seems, it seems like their document management system perfectly changed that digit in this manner.