Having spent some time with OCR and scanning recently, I'd have to agree.
A lot of news articles are describing JBIG2 as something archaic, when it seems to be as relevant and commonplace as ever. (see MRC, for a modern application)
A lot of news articles are describing JBIG2 as something archaic, when it seems to be as relevant and commonplace as ever. (see MRC, for a modern application)
Basically, you scan a paper document. It contains a mixture of line art, text, and photographs—“mixed” types of content. You can segment it and use different codecs to encode these different segments, and then combine the results in a PDF.
> Essentially, 1990's algorithms used in photocopying and scanning compression are still lurking in modern communication software, with all of the flaws and baggage that come with them.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/googl...
Given than JBIG2 wasn't standardized until 2000, and that the Apple vulnerability was in their implementation (vs the standard) I just don't understand this characterization.