At lower zoom the downscale image is too blurred especially with black-white text scans. To see the difference I attach a patch that change the filter at downscale to NEAREST.
Created attachment 38045 [details] image with bilinear filter
Created attachment 38046 [details] image with nearest filter
Created attachment 38047 [details] [review] patch
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