Re: Need help in eliminating "bleed-through"
Patricia Bruce (mailto:PBruce@swri.edu)
Thu, 15 Jan 1998 11:47:27 CST
Message-Id: <199801151753.KAA67748@dns.ccit.arizona.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 11:47:27 CST
From: Patricia Bruce <mailto:PBruce@swri.edu>
Subject: Re: Need help in eliminating "bleed-through"
To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Try placing a dark piece of paper behind the scanned object. Black is
recommended, but you may need to try other dark colors, depending upon the
color of the ink.
"Peter Nelson" <mailto:pnelson@MTHOLYOKE.EDU> Wrote:
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| Please excuse cross-posting.
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| 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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| Peter Nelson
| mailto:pnelson@mtholyoke.edu
| Five College Archives Digital Access Project
| c/o Mount Holyoke College Archives
| http://clio.fivecolleges.edu
| South Hadley, MA 01075
| (413) 538-3020
| Don't anthropomorphize computers. They don't like
| it.
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