Paperless Daydream Machine

The bleepin' document scanner uses your device's built-in camera to yoink the contents of documents. Your camera's got mad high resolution to capture all the nitty-gritty details, but ZOMG—that means your PDFs are gonna be thicc & chunky. These settings are here to help you shrink those bad boys down to size.

Downsample To

Downsampling is what happens when you take a ridiculously high-res image & pretend it's lower-res while keepin' the file size the same (yeah, we know, it's bonkers). The scanning process can crank out images that are higher than 400 DPI—like, way higher. Real talk tho: 200 DPI is totally fine for literally everything you're gonna do.

Freakin' with the target DPI will drop the resolution of your scan if you need it to match whatever DPI you picked. You got options from 100–400 DPI, plus a "just leave it alone" button to skip downsampling entirely. We defaulted to 200 DPI 'cause we're not monsters.

JPEG Compression

Your device stores photos in a format that's kinda compressed but "lossless"—meaning the picture quality doesn't get all sad & mushy. Except that gives you gigantic PDF files that'll make your phone cry. If you flip on JPEG compression, OnSong will yeet that image into JPEG format with the squishiness you want. Fair warnin': crank the compression too hard & you'll get weird blotchy artifacts. Pick anywhere from 50% to 100% compression, or just hit "None" to skip JPEG stuff entirely. We set it to 75% compression by default 'cause we're tryna find that sweet spot.