In my previous "scandoc" script I used pngquant to reduce the number of grey levels to 4 (i. e. black, white, dark grey, light grey). That worked well enough for me, while still keeping small file sizes. I do agree that documents with 4 or 8 gray levels are much easier to read.
In my previous "scandoc" script I used pngquant to reduce the number of grey levels to 4 (i. e. black, white, dark grey, light grey). That worked well enough for me, while still keeping small file sizes. I do agree that documents with 4 or 8 gray levels are much easier to read.