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Having spent some time with OCR and scanning recently, I'd have to agree. A lot of news articles are describing JBIG2 as something archaic, when it seems to be
by oasisbob 5y ago
Having spent some time with OCR and scanning recently, I'd have to agree.
A lot of news articles are describing JBIG2 as something archaic, when it seems to be as relevant and commonplace as ever. (see MRC, for a modern application)
- ciabattabread 5y agoThe article was originally written for Financial Times, whose audience will have a general knowledge of computing. Also, what the heck is MRC?
- klodolph 5y agoMixed raster content, I assume. Basically, you scan a paper document. It contains a mixture of line art, text, and photographs—“mixed” types of content. You can segment it and use different codecs to encode these different segments, and then combine the results in a PDF.
- oasisbob 5y agoNews articles, plural. Eg, here is another story by way of Ars: > Essentially, 1990's algorithms used in photocopying and scanning compression are still lurking in modern communication software, with all of the flaws and baggage that come with them. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/google-warns-that-nso-hacking-is-on-par-with-elite-nation-state-spies/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/googl... Given than JBIG2 wasn't standardized until 2000, and that the Apple vulnerability was in their implementation (vs the standard) I just don't understand this characterization.