Most of mine are in tiff format which although larger seems to be better for text even when zoomed in
How do you handle multiple pages?
I use paperless-ngx. All my scans are in PDF format.
My multiple page documents such as bank statements are just uploaded as pdfs
I also get my bank statements digitally; those are trivial to handle.
This is about scans of physical paper.
Does your scanner not have a scan to pdf option?
I've got a USB scanner that (presumably) just sends a bitmap. It's up to the software instructing the scanner to convert that bitmap into other formats.
Even if it did do that itself, how would it encode the images inside the PDFs? It's the same issue, just that I wouldn't get to choose.
Overlaps somewhat with /c/floss_replacement and /c/privacy; crossposts welcome