@frostschutz (alzheimer)
Most of the books are SCIFI from that decade and I want to have them readable on my iRiver HD
. Within certain limits I can adjust the image brightness but not the threshhold (exposure) directly. To determine the threshhold on a per book scale would mean some extra work which I would like to avoid. On the other hand: if I do grayscale I have more information in my image to compensate for exposure errors at a later point of the work flow.
I would be really interested in an opinion from an FineReader(!!!) user how well the integrated optimization works if I go into workflow no. 2
Like you wrote - my tendency is to avoid too much extra work and I would favour the pure b&w workflow from the beginning. Obviously I have to die one death or the other
@DSpider
Most of the German translated books are from American authors who still live or some German publishers still own the rights. As I own the paperback I can do private copies for my own usage. I have my doubts that there are titles in the Google world which can be downloaded legally.
Most of the prints are on cheap paper and carry a lot "wooden" artifacts in addition to the tint and I obviously have to do some despeckling too (which will be done by this marvellous sw "Scan Tailor").
I just will start and see what experience I will gather during the process itself.
Thanks for your answers - I will keep you informed here.