This paper presents a new method of multilevel estimation of dithered images. A dithered picture, a two-tone picture which gives the illusion of picture with many shades of gray, is obtained by comparing the gray-level picture which gives the illusion of picture with a position-dependent threshold. When the intensity of a picture element exeeds the threshold it is classified as white: otherwise it is black. In the new estimation scheme, the simulation results show the SNR of the new method is improved 0.7dB compared with the old method. And we propose a new progressive image transmission by employing thie method.