From: David Starner <prosfilaes@gmail.com>
That's what the OCR program likes. Distributed Proofreaders are very likely to continue producing B&W 300 dpi scans in most cases for the near future.
I thought we wanted additionally in future to produce the image versions of the books. If so, the 16 level 100-200 dpi versions should be made from non-B&W scans. Note that 1-bit 600 dpi images may be generated later from 8-bit 200-300 dpi images. I suggest to scan, e.g., with 8-bit 300 dpi and immediately convert both to 1-bit 600 dpi and to 4-bit 150 dpi if original scans are too much.
* The original print is more pleasant to read than the ascii or html text.
In some cases, but that generally indicates you're handling it wrong.
I have no effect on how the computer displays the ascii and html texts.
* Math text is better in its original print than in the TeX or math-html equivalent.
Typewritten text with equations added in in pen is better than TeX? I think there's good reasons why Knuth made TeX.
I have scanned math books printed at 1890. The default TeX font and layout looks awful compared to the books. Equations added with pen seems to have been a bad trend between 1960-1990 when publishers, such as Springer, started accepting the author-provided camera-ready prints. The authors at worst did use manual typeset machine. However, a few authors used Troff and TeX without the pen inked equations. Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software