bitmap tracer confusion for simple scan of words drawn by hand

[mintintegral18]

Hello, I'm confused about a grayscale bitmap tracer. I've tried various options, but setting "Final color tolerance"=100 seems to be on the right path. As seen here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WiQ83Msa3w

however, with the images I'm posting here, I'm not sure what to tweke next? the Bitmap Tracer, seems to make multiple layers of objects. I've tried setting accuracy low and min area, but I get confused. Thanks. For black/white as the goal, and using pencil art that has been scanned to computer as the source, this is the settings I seem to get something workable. Bitmap Tracer settings: Grayscale with Remove noise=50, Min Area=39, Final color Tolerance=100, Accuracy=53 and Smoothing=78.

I want the black letter lines to be objects, not layers of black and white objects. As you can see the white area in the letter "a" has multiple handles. Maybe it's just a matter of sliding these values to a different combination, but I've already tried 11 and it's getting complex to keep track of which slider makes which affect. sources: https://helpandsupport.xara.com/xara...ng/tracer.html And this insert picture showing part of the letter E, that is almost what I am hoping Bitmap tracer can do.