Tag: compression

PDF/R: Image format of the future

In our article on the new PDF Standards 2020, we already mentioned four new standard parts that will play an increasingly important role in the future. We also mentioned PDF/R-1 as a standard for the optimal storage and data exchange of multi-page raster image documents, i.e. above all scanned documents and photos. New image format…




New rules governing appropriate compression methods for scans

Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) is the highest agency within the country’s Federal Ministry of the Interior responsible for matters of IT security. To ensure legal conformity, the BSI has prohibited scanning methods that utilize so-called pattern matching and substitution for image compression, an example being JBIG2. This prohibition also applies to the…