Do the "professional scanners" here, like
Al, have a recommendation
for resolving this?
What you have to watch is the black/white threshold level on the
lower contrast lettering, like your page 5. I like to hand-set that
threshold on pages like this, then wipe around with an eraser
to clear out the increased noiselevel artifacts.
Of course I defer to Al on issues of scanning.
I guess what we all need is a way to do automatic noise
suppression, very analagous to digitizing music.
John A.