[Web4lib] RE: sharpening images and OCR

[Stevens, Julieanne H.]

I've used a program called Thumbs Plus for years, from Cerious software, for images.  It has some very handy features, including jpg cleanup, batch processing, and the capacity to create "contact sheets" from your digital image library.  It's affordable and  very user friendly.


Julieanne Hartman Stevens
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From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Bloy
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 4:39 PM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Cc: John Fitzgibbon
Subject: [Web4lib] RE: sharpening images and OCR

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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