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Old 03-09-2012, 05:19 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by frostschutz View Post
Upscaling doesn't sound right to me...
Maybe I am using the wrong terminology but I have seen with my own eyes when so-so grayscale text turns into crisp sharp 600 dpi B/W text after SK. I actually used to do it myself quite often.

Under its hood, SK uses some advanced math algorithms (one drawback of this program is that it takes a long time even on the advanced hardware to work, I am talking hours at times). If I am guessing correctly, the author is some math guy from Russia.
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