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I use OmniPage for OCR work.  Occasionally I want to sharpen a scanned page
of text using an image-processing program to make the text clear enough
to be accurately recognized.  There are lots of good image editing
programs, but I can't find one that writes the flavor of 1-bit TIFF
file format that OmniPage imports.  OmniPage is VERY picky about the
kind of 1-bit TIFF format it will import!

The closest I've come is Digital Darkroom 1.1, which has a 1-bit TIFF export
option.  But when you select that option, it asks what kind of "focus"
and "brightness" you want to use before it does the save.  (Why does
it ask that?  Presumably you just edited the image to your satisfaction!)
Then it takes about 10 minutes (!) to save the image.  (What's it doing?!)
If the exported image is accepted by OmniPage (sometimes OmniPage rejects it),
it usually looks terrible and OmniPage can't recognize *anything* on it,
even though it looked really good in Digital Darkroom before the save.

Are there any OmniPage users out there who touch up scanned images, then
import them into OmniPage successfully?  If so, what works?  Is there a
conversion program that can convert some other format (PICT, PICT2,
multi-bit TIFF, whatever) into the *extremely* picky flavor of 1-bit TIFF
that OmniPage accepts?  I sure wish OmniPage could import at least ONE
other file format!  It *should*, for the price Caere charges! :^(
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