1. A system, comprising: a computer processor; and logic executable by the computer processor, the logic configured to implement a method, the method including: determining an image as a candidate for a scaling process; scanning the image and identifying text in the image from the scanning; scaling the image to a next lower resolution, the scaling comprising reducing a set of pixel dimensions to a nearest lower rendering level; iteratively performing the scaling process until a threshold value of a readability metric is reached, the scaling process including: scanning the scaled image for scaled text; comparing a difference between the text and the scaled text to the difference indicative of the readability metric; and scaling the scaled image to a next lower resolution; and responsive to reaching the threshold value of the readability metric, selecting from scaled images an image having a lowest resolution resulting from the scaling process before the threshold value of the readability metric was reached; wherein the readability metric is calculated as a function of a Levenshtein Distance between the text and the scaled text, and a length of the original text.