[Coco] [OT] Graphics Advice for Cleaning Scans

[Frank Pittel]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 06:17:59PM -0700, Dean Leiber wrote:
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> On Apr 13, 2009, at 5:14 PM, Tim Fadden wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
>>
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> 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.

Have you tried scanning as a B/W?