[Coco] [OT] Graphics Advice for Cleaning Scans

[Dean Leiber]

On Apr 13, 2009, at 11:51 AM, t.fadden at cox.net wrote:
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> Which documents are you refering to? perhaps some one could make  
> new scans.
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I'm working on a Tele-Forth Manual for the Dragon. The original  
document was rather lousy (Black DMP Printing on dark orange paper!)  
Now, the scans are high enough resolution, but its the fact that the  
original documents are the problem. However, I've been able to  
convert them to B/W making them actually readable (more so than the  
original!) however I get a lot of speckling in the process. I'll  
never get them to be pristine but its way too much to clean by hand  
(which I actually do on a lot of scans) so I was hoping for a filter  
to remove at  least some of the problem (I recall Photoshop 3 had a  
de-speckle filter.) However, I'll probably have to leave them as is,  
but at least I can read them now!

Dean