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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Scanning will generally produce a TIFF image. That may be converted to JPG or PNG, because TIFF is an uncompressed format
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TIFF files can be compressed or uncompressed. From the TIFF specification:
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Baseline TIFF readers must handle the following three compression schemes:- No compression
- CCITT Group 3 1-Dimensional Modified Huffman RLE
- PackBits compression - a form of run-length encoding
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Both of these compression methods are lossless, so of course don't compress nearly as much as JPEG, which compresses by throwing away information.