i’ve been getting quite a few pdfs from annas archive that have lots of photographs that look all filled with jpg artifacts or something. most of these i think were originally uploaded to the internet archive. is there any way to correct this or am i stuck between not reading the book or having to read it looking like this?

  • Björn@swg-empire.deEnglish
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    2 days ago

    They have lots of jpg artefacts because they are heavily compressed jpgs. Nothing you can do about it except finding the uncompressed original, which would have a much larger filesize.

    As far as I recall all pixel images in PDFs are jpgs. So they will all have varying degrees of artefacts.

  • OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    They are images with no background, and the pdf/image wasn’t set up properly to fill that in with the page colour.