36.18 Image Text Quality

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A scan of a text document saved as pdf was being printed rather poorly. The following processing improved the quality, darkening the text with less fuzziness.

convert -density 300 scan.pdf -brightness-contrast -20x40 -depth 4 -colors 4 darker.pdf


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