[Web4lib] RE: sharpening images and OCR

[Jonathan Bloy]

John Fitzgibbon wrote:
> We have just captured photographs from old newspapers that are on microfilm.
> We are about to put these images on the Web. What software is best for
> enhancing these images? Sometimes, there are black lines going down through the
> image.

Lines like that are common when you scan newspaper and sometimes magazine photos.  Most scanning software has an option called "de-screen" which should eliminate those lines when you scan the images.


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Jonathan Bloy
Web Services Librarian
Edgewood College
Madison, Wisconsin
http://library.edgewood.edu/