You might find it worth trying 'digikam' first if you have many pages to
process and are more interested in legibility than final aesthetic
appearance.
I've used it a lot for "restoring" old documents:
Image=>Edit=>Color=>Auto-correction offers you 4 types of correction.
One or other of these w
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:34 PM, James wrote:
> As further information on my project, I mention yellowing of the paper. It
> would probably be more accurate to call it "browning" since, in some
> instances, its shade can approach the same intensity of light pencil markings.
You can also try to de
>On Thursday 05 March 2009, James wrote:
>> Ideally, I'd like all the yellowed paper that forms the background
>> of these images to turn as close to white as possible, while all the
pencil
>> text should be as close to black as possible. Can anyone point me to
things
>> I can try under gimp that w
< snip >
> I'm not any kind of gimp power user or anything--I usually just feel my way
> around the program and usually get it to do the fairly simple graphic
> manipulations I want. So far, that method has not worked well for this
> project. So I'd like to ask some tips here on accomplishing the
On Thursday 05 March 2009, James wrote:
> Ideally, I'd like all the yellowed paper that forms the background
> of these images to turn as close to white as possible, while all the pencil
> text should be as close to black as possible. Can anyone point me to things
> I can try under gimp that will h
Hi. I have an elderly friend whose father kept a diary during WW2. The diary
is written in pencil on poor quality paper that has yellowed considerably with
age. The text is still pretty legible but as time passes it will become less
so. I decided I could photograph pages of the diary and enhance th
