[Coco] [OT] Graphics Advice for Cleaning Scans

[Dean Leiber]

On Apr 13, 2009, at 5:14 PM, Tim Fadden wrote:

> Dean,
>
> I will take a look at one and see if I can do any thing.  I use  
> Paint Shop Pro.  It has a paint fill tool that you can pick a color  
> variance, like medium orange to white, and turn it all white,  Or,  
> medium grey to black and turn it all black.  Works good for some  
> stuff.  I saw some black and white documents that looked like  
> copies of old copies of copies ...... with tons of specs on.  I  
> thought you may be talking of them.
>
>

Actually when I convert it from Color to B/W, it does make it look  
like a 5th generation Xerox. I can tone down on the 'speckles' during  
the conversion, but then the text isn't as clear. So, I opted for  
readability and thought I'd try to do some de-speckle work on the  
results. The whole problem is that the background color is far too  
'near' the text color. Well, I probably won't spend too much time on  
it now, since I have a number of other documents in my queue waiting  
to be archived;I just thought someone might have a quick solution. If  
you'd like a page to play around with let me know. I don't want to  
clog your in-box unnecessarily tho.

Dean