1. A method of enhancing text-like edges in an image of pixels, comprising the steps of: segmenting pixels in a block of image pixels into first and second pixel classes; and edge enhancing the pixel block in response to a determination that the pixel block likely contains at least one text-like edge based on a measure of distance separating intensity values respectively representing intensity distributions of the first and second classes and based on measures of peakedness of intensity histograms computed for both the first and second pixel classes.