Enhance scanned PDF

Enhance scanned PDF

Raise the contrast for washed-out copies, use grayscale to drop a tinted paper background, or choose black and white for the sharpest text and often a much smaller file. In black and white mode, the threshold decides how dark a pixel must be to stay black. Adjusted pages are saved as images, so run OCR PDF afterwards if you need to search them.

  1. Choose a scanned PDF and the pages to adjust.
  2. Set brightness, contrast and colour mode, plus the threshold for black and white.
  3. Select Adjust pages and download the cleaner PDF.

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