OCR'ing old manuals

From: John Allain <allain_at_panix.com>
Date: Sun Sep 14 10:34:00 2003

> I'm a little wary of saving things in mono as somebody else
> mentioned - I'm sure that could have a negative effect on the
> OCR process at a later date. Greyscale (8 bit) I expect is
> fine though.

I usually use greyscale with a good interpolator to increase my
dpi 2 to 3x linearly (increasing the dotcount 4 to 9x overall) and
Then cast it to 1 bit. Works great. Just going directly from
8 bit to 1 bit at the same dpi is a waste of good information.

John A.
Received on Sun Sep 14 2003 - 10:34:00 BST