[Before and after.]
What I’m about to suggest might be common knowledge, but perhaps not. The paint-can tool in an image editor offers an easy way to neaten up a scan from Google Books (or from anywhere). Choose a color (perhaps with an eyedropper tool) and pour. Digital artifacts, begone.
The image above is from Google Books, an illustration of the Robinson Reminder pocket notebook. I used the paint-can tool in a more elaborate way last week after scanning a page from Hart’s Guide to New York City. When I pressed hard to get the text on a verso page, chunks of the text from the recto page came through. So I aimed and poured, and poured again and again.
[I like Seashore, a free image-editor for OS X.]
Friday, June 29, 2012
Neatening up
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You can keep the recto's text from bleeding through by covering it with a piece of black paper or cardboard. From the bottom: scanner glass - page to scan - black paper.
Thanks for the tip, Gunther. The pages of this book are so thin that I’m not sure black paper would work, but I’m going to try it out.
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