Processing two-colour printed manuals - was Re: Too many DEC binders

[Toby Thain]

On 2019-08-24 5:09 p.m., Al Kossow wrote:
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> On 8/24/19 10:45 AM, Toby Thain wrote:
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>> By the way, what's your position on scanning two-colour printed manuals
>> like the DTR ones? Not worth keeping the colour for Bitsavers?
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> I'd like to do it for all the multi-color text manuals, but I never came up with a way
> to map to single shades per color from a png
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Have you looked at Matt Zucker's noteshrink? Not exactly what you're
asking, but still possibly useful for duotone work:
https://github.com/mzucker/noteshrink

I did some brainstorming with Aaron (OP) recently and I think it would
be possible to do a good isolation of the second colour, automatically.
Might hack something up because the DATATRIEVE stuff is all printed in 2
inks. (Assuming noteshrink isn't good enough.)

--Toby