[Web4lib] sharpening images and OCR

[John Fitzgibbon]

Hi,

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.

A second related question is this: we are hoping to OCR some articles from a TIFF image thus created. What OCR package costing fewer than 2,000 dollars might be best for this task. I suspect that none of them will be good enough because the original newspaper was in such a poor state when microfilmed, but, I thought I would investigate it anyway.

Any advice would be much appreciated.


Regards John



John Fitzgibbon



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