how to batch convert gray to b/w

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brookefox
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how to batch convert gray to b/w

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I understand the setup and executed fine a binary convert, but the images are not black and white as there are gray pixels present.

How to reduce the color levels to 2?

Thanks.
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Re: how to batch convert gray to b/w

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Which format do you use?
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Re: how to batch convert gray to b/w

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Sorry. These are jpg.
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brookefox wrote:Sorry. These are jpg.
JPEG can't save B&W picture only greyscale & RGB
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Re: how to batch convert gray to b/w

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OK, thank you. Irfanview gets around this limitation somehow, and saves the result as a jpg.
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brookefox wrote:OK, thank you. Irfanview gets around this limitation somehow, and saves the result as a jpg.
It's a limitation of the JPEG format
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