[sane-devel] Scanning for fax - resolution problem

[m. allan noah]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Dieter Jurzitza
<dieter.jurzitza at t-online.de> wrote:
> Hi Frank,
> saw this thread only lately, so here's another suggestion how I do this (apart
> from the fact that I do not use hylafax but sendfax ...)
>
> I scan with 600dpi, but lineart mode, I found that this (somehow) improved the
> results (for me ...) though, theoretically, 204 dpi should be optimum
> (because this is what the fax does.
>

Thats funny if you think about it, cause 600x600 dpi lineart scaled to
200x200 is 9:1, only slightly more data than a 200x200 gray to lineart
(8:1). So, they are almost the same operation, if the scanner's
threshold is set properly.

allan
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