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Originally Posted by rkomar
TIFF format is more about the wrapping than the encoding. You can compress using many different methods within a TIFF wrapper. I would suggest that you produce your black-and-white images as CCIT4 encoded TIFF files before calling gs to create the PDF file (i.e. use the option "-compress Group4" when running mogrify/convert). I'm not familiar with scantailor, but maybe it offers that option out of the box.
When I was first scanning my books, I would use convert to produce the TIFF files with CCIT4 compression. Then I would use tiffcp to combine the separate TIFF files into a single multi-page TIFF file. I would then use either tumble or tiff2pdf to convert the multi-page TIFF file into a PDF file. Then I would use gs as the last step to add PDFMARKS to the PDF file.
Nowadays I used pdfbeads, but that has become more complicated than my old way because the program is no longer maintained and is very difficult to get working on a modern system. I use my old copy of pdfbeads within an old linux distro running inside VirtualBox.
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Thank you for the quick answer - pdfbeads -- interesting idea -- (vm i get it :-) ) - as for the other points above -- thats exactly what im currently doing and i wrote a crude bash wrapper for tryouts
but basically its the following.
qpdf --> explode all pdfs into single pdf pages
gs --> convert pdf to tiff (b/w tiffg4)
gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -r300x300 -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1 -sOutputFile=111.tif page-111.pdf
than loop over the tif -> pdf with img2pdf a "raw" wrapper without encoding
https://gitlab.mister-muffin.de/josch/img2pdf
and than bulk all the PDF's together into a combined pdf.
rather crude - but i achieve good compression results on b/w images with minimal effort and quite reasonable quality. (please be aware that the input images should be b/w allready -- if they are grey the tiffg4 encode gives sometimes funky results.
though i share -- topic closed on my end -- but it was hell of frustrating :-) to get some grip on that.
\Pete