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Can text scans be B&W? - currently gray scale

Asked by Tom

Hello:

Simple Scan is great !
Thanks for supporting it.

When scanning text documents, I would really prefer an output that is just black & white. This would be analogous to what you would get from a FAX machine for instance. Simple Scan seems to produce gray scale. Not only is this a less efficient format for just plain text, but the gray scale tends to make the output too light (when printing a scanned copy), or it can also look a little blurry.

I tried to adjust the Brightness, Contrast, and Quality settings in order to force a B&W only output, but didn't find a combination that seemed right.

Is there a way to achieve a simple B&W output format without resorting to a post-processing step using another tool?

-Thanks

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Michael Nagel (nailor) said : 		#1

I think it once was -- and then the behavior was changed -- see linked bug.

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Tom (tomdiviney) said : 		#2

Interesting discussion in the linked thread from a while back.
It seems there is not a consensus for "Text" mode regarding a preference for multi-level gray scale or lineart.

Without contaminating the elegant simplicity of Simple Scan,
Perhaps allowing the user to control the degree of gray-scaling in the Document Preferences menu for text mode..,

For instance:

1 bit per pixel (lineart)
2 bits per pixel (current operation)
  :
  :
up to 8 bits per pixel (would be more like a black & white photo rendering)

could be considered?

-Thanks

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