Re: Need help in eliminating "bleed-through"

Susan Forman (mailto:sforman@one.net)
Thu, 15 Jan 1998 13:00:40 +0000 

Message-Id: <199801151800.LAA67636@dns.ccit.arizona.edu>
Date:         Thu, 15 Jan 1998 13:00:40 +0000
From: Susan Forman <mailto:sforman@one.net>
Subject:      Re: Need help in eliminating "bleed-through"
To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU


Since the top of the scanner is light in color (reflective) I would
try using dark paper to back the scanner lid


Susan


> 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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