Message-Id: <199801151728.KAA47290@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 12:25:21 -0500 From: Peter Nelson <mailto:pnelson@MTHOLYOKE.EDU> Subject: Need help in eliminating "bleed-through" To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Please excuse cross-posting.We are using a flatbed scanner and Photoshop 4.0 to create JPEG images of handwritten manuscripts, and recently encountered a series of documents written in dark ink on very thin onionskin paper. Consequently there is a bad "bleed-through" problem, i.e. writing on the verso can plainly be seen. This results in nearly illegible text. Does anyone on this list know of any trick, such as a mask or filter, that can reduce or eliminate this problem? I should add that the original mss. present the same problem, so any solution would in effect be improving on the visual quality of the originals.
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