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Old 02-07-2011, 02:38 PM   #11
Gwaihir
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Originally Posted by Shaggy View Post
I assume these are being scanned as images, and not OCR'd into text?
Even so, when I tell my scanner that what it's scanning is text, it tries to interpret everything as black and white (no half-tones) and that really improves readability of such text, compared to scanning as photos (which yields plenty of gray scales and very little true black or true white).

In short: if at all possible, I'd try to solve this problem at the source, at the scanner.
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