1. An imaging process for producing a clean, readable binary image of a scanned document comprising the steps of: a. digitally capturing a document as a gray scale image; b. performing an image adaptive thresholding process to convert the gray scale image into a binary image; c. inspecting the binary image to create an image noise index value indicative of the amount of undesirable image artifacts or image information loss; d. determining whether the image noise index is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value; and e. performing an image correction process to produce a readable, clean binary image when said image noise index value is determined to be equal to or smaller than said threshold value.