Scaling 1-bit bitonal black and white images

I have an image of a document that was scanned
black-and-white (1-bit color depth) that I need to display and
scale. When I use Flex's built in Image.Scale it scales very
"choppy" and unreadable. When I scale the same image in Photoshop,
it seems to use much more antialiasing, and the form is clearly
recognizable, even at just 125 pixels wide.
Is there a way to get Flex to use a better scaling algorithm
for 1-bit images? It seems to do a smashing-good job with
full-color image scaling.

thx for answering
You understood right, I have enough memory for saving 1-bit images, but
Graphics.drawImage(Image img, int x, int y, int anchor) can draw only RGB images so each time I want to draw some image, I have to remake 1-bit images into RGB images, it takes a lot time, so I need to make some optimization
My application draws symbols, but symbols are presented by Glyphs, so I draw some black&white Glyphs

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