Ubuntu
simple-scan package

  1. Bug #521323
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 521323

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staedtler-przyborski (staedtler-przyborski-deactivatedaccount) wrote : Re: "Text" scan is in black-and-white, not greyscale

Here you can read some good reasons why lineart is the better choice compared to grayscale for OCR:
http://www.scantips.com/basics4f.html

But (there's always a but ;-) in real life things may be different. Depending on Scanner/Driver in some cases grayscale could be the better choice. One of the biggest problems of 'one size fit's all' solutions is: There is no 'bed of Prokustes', means: real scanners (and their drivers) are too different.