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. -- "Text" scan is in black-and-white, not greyscale https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/521323 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs