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My experience is that many of the books at Anna's Archive were scanned at the Internet Archive, using some compromise exposure setting that renders halftones de
by k310 2mo ago
My experience is that many of the books at Anna's Archive were scanned at the Internet Archive, using some compromise exposure setting that renders halftones decently, but puts text on a dingy gray background.
- Anamon 1mo agoInternet Archive provides their scans in various formats and AA seems to mostly archive a very poor one. I think what you're describing is the result of a post-processing step for one of the space-saving derivatives. It's worth looking up the book on the IA and see how it looks there. Very often, I found that it looks excellent on IA, but terrible, borderline unreadable, in the AA copy. The difference is also obvious in the file size. Generally I found the quality of the original scans of books scanned by the IA to be excellent.