On Wed 02 Jan 2019 at 19:17:00 (+0000), mick crane wrote: > On 2019-01-02 10:24, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 09:40:33AM +0000, Joe wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 09:59:48 +0100 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > And next time, try to find a scanner which provides you with a raw > > > > image. Wrapping images in PDFs is... not elegant. > > > > > > They do this to cater for multiple pages, whereas in my experience, > > > most scanning is single-sheet. Even the Simple Scan program on Debian > > > defaults to pdf, something which cannot be configured. > > > > I get this, and offering that option seems to make sense. But forcing > > it (and forcing an image format like JPEG) doesn't make sense. So > > either > > provide the knobs or let the host software do it. > > > > My scanner just transfers the raw image. The scan program is > > responsible > > for the transformation to the target format, which I can choose. > > This is > > how /I/ want to be treated, as a paying customer. > > having a scanner do PDFs is weird, see Obama birth certificate, how do > you know is a faithful copy ? > A piece of paper with marks on it is an image and should be treated as > such.
If I could be bothered to look, I might be able to come across a raw sound or video file on this Debian system. It's quite normal to wrap such raw data in a container format of some sort. So I can't understand your objection to wrapping a scanned image into a PDF container, which makes a lot of data handling a lot easier than would otherwise be the case. An obvious example was already mentioned: put a document into the ADF, press the button, obtain one file containing the entire document. Other examples would be postprocessing with programs like pdftk and pdfjam. Would you really send a scanned document to a company/institution as a multitude of image attachments instead of a single PDF? If you want the image back from a PDF, that's what the pdfimages program is for. I would assume that tomás is pleased with the packaging of the raw scan data into an image format of some description, so what's the difference? Cheers, David.
