1. A system to generate a continuous tone image from tagged binary encoded image, comprising: a pattern identifier generator to generate a pattern identifier value based upon a pattern of pixels around a pixel of interest; a filter to generate a filter contone value based upon a neighborhood of pixels around a pixel of interest; a contone value generator, operatively connected to said pattern identifier generator, to generate a generator contone value from said pattern identifier value; and a selector, operatively connected to said contone value generator and said filter, to select said filter contone value if the pixel of interest corresponds to pictorial pixels and to select said generator contone value if the pixel of interest corresponds to text pixels.