Equalizing brightness and enhancing contrast

Attention: The Brightness & Contrast tool can only be applied to color and grayscale images.

To equalize brightness and/or enhance contrast of an image:

  1. Switch to the image editing mode by clicking the button on the main toolbar. This will bring up a new toolbar with image editing tools.
  2. Select the Brightness & Contrast tool.
  3. Select:
    • Equalize brightness to equalize image color brightness automatically;
      • Change background to white to bring the color of the image background closer to white;
    • Enhance contrast to improve image contrast automatically.

      Note: Using automatic settings provides optimal recognition quality.
  4. Select the pages you want to apply the tool to.
    Note: You can undo this operation only for the current page, regardless of the number of pages the tool was applied to.
  5. Click the Apply button.

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