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High contrast mode is great for readability, but if you’re trying to read a PDF, you’ll need to do some tweaking in Adobe Reader. We’ll walk you through it. Microsoft Windows’ High Contrast colour scheme is a built-in accessibility setting that helps improve readability. It uses a black. Jul 28, 2016 Solved: In acrobat XI - where is the brightness and/or contrast settings for scanning PDF's. I just upgraded from acrobat 6 and these settings were Adobe Support Community.
We get PDF's from our professor to read for homework but they're often scanned documents, is there a way to adjust the contrast of the text to make it easier to read?
Edit: I've got Photoshop but is there a way to do it from a PDF reader?
Edit2: Windows XP, 7 ** Windows or Ubuntu Only **
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You can try this:
Go to Edit>Preferences>Accessibility
This will not change the true contrast, but you can pick contrasting colors of your choice, or one of the defaults, as in the screenshot.
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You could try Imagemagick - it's a graphics manipulation program that can read and write PDFs too.
There are a few command line options that may help - for example: -normalize, -contrast and -contrast-stretch
Try something like:
convert original.pdf -contrast new.pdf
More info and examples on the site.
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Under OS X, you can use
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which is installed by default. There are many filters, and one is for decreasing contrast.172k4949 gold badges478478 silver badges494494 bronze badges
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What I did was change the color of the text by going to edit menu, clicking on preferences and then the accessibility tab. You can customize the color for the document text. It doesn't do anything for the images, but at least you can see the text on a dark background.
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I saved it as a Microsoft Word file in Acrobat Reader. Then I opened the Word Document and adjusted the brightness and contrast of the image until it was readable. It makes for an expensive print, but it works.
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If you open it in Photoshop and resave as a PSD file you can or if you want to apply on all pages, do the following:
- Open the pdf in Preview.
- Make sure the preview pages are showing
- Click page one
- 'Select All' (or Command + A), All pages are selected
- Run any Preview tool/filter and all pages will be affected simultaneously
If your pdf is locked, you will not be able to perform this operation.
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I've run into this as well. for some reason version 5 of the reader seems to work as expected. I think it might be something in the creation, but I've not tracked it down yet.
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I changed contrast with PDFClerk. It has a lot of filters in there, when exporting PDF.
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You can use the graphics card or monitor settings to handle this.
See this post as well.
For that you could use a system wide gamma/brightness/contrast setting; usually if you have a modestly advanced graphics card, its control panel will have options to change gamma / contrast / brightness / hue. e.g. NVIDIA control panel, ATI Catalyst Control Center/Panel etc. It will affect the the whole system, but you can always change it back when you're done viewing the file.
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You can also try Nuance Paperport (I got this 'free') with my Brother MFC scanner/printer.
Essentially if you have a dark grey font on a light grey background (a low contrast scan), then you tell it to 'stretch' the dark grey to black and the light grey to white. This is done by setting the black/white points as follows:
- Open Paper port, navigate to the PDF
- Right click the PDF within PaperPort
- 'SET Tools'
- Auto-enhance (or Apply current white/black points)
Now you can manually set the while/black points for finer control
- Open Paper port, navigate to the PDF
- Right click the PDF within PaperPort
- Open with ImageView
- In the top ribbon, pick 'White point' and now click some area of the scanned page you think should be white (eg: grey background of a low contrast scan).
- In the top ribbon, pick 'Black point' and now click some area of the scanned page you think should be black (eg: The grey text letters of a low contrast scan)
I used this to create a legible black and white PDF from a scan that was originally black text on dark blue paper (that scans as a very low contrast)
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The Brightness/Contrast adjustment lets you make simple adjustments to the tonal range of an image. Moving the brightness slider to the right increases tonal values and expands image highlights, to the left decreases values and expands shadows. The contrast slider expands or shrinks the overall range of tonal values in the image.
In normal mode, Brightness/Contrast applies proportionate (nonlinear) adjustments to the image layer, as with Levels and Curves adjustments. When Use Legacy is selected, Brightness/Contrast simply shifts all pixel values higher or lower when adjusting brightness. Since this can cause clipping or loss of image detail in highlight or shadow areas, using Brightness/Contrast in Legacy mode is not recommended for photographic images (but can be useful for editing masks or scientific imagery).
Note:
Use Legacy is automatically selected whenediting Brightness/Contrast adjustment layers created with previousversions of Photoshop.
- Click the Brightness/Contrast icon inthe Adjustments panel.
- Choose Layer > New Adjustment Layer >Brightness/Contrast. Click OK in the New Layer dialog box.
Note:You can also choose Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast.But keep in mind that this method makes direct adjustments to theimage layer and discards image information.- In the Properties panel, drag the sliders to adjust the brightness and contrast.Dragging to the left decreases the level, and draggingto the right increases it. The number at the right of each sliderreflects the brightness or contrast value. Values can range from‑150 to +150 for Brightness, ‑50 to +100 for Contrast.
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