Help restoring early issues of Mark-8 Newsletter

From: Jim Kearney <jim_at_jkearney.com>
Date: Mon Aug 11 11:29:00 2003

> At least the first 3 issues of the Mark-8 Newsletter were published by
> Hal Singer using a ditto machine. I have copies of these issues which
> range in quality from faded and smeared to _really_ faded and smeared. I
> would like to try to "restore" these items to readable form - anybody
> have any ideas? The worst pages are faded beyond simply photocopying
> and/or OCR - I'm wondering if there may be some way to chemically "lift"
> the images, UV light, etc.

Some of the pages that I scanned were _very_ hard to read by eye, but modern
image editing programs have some great tools in them to deal with that. I
scanned them at very high resolution and in full color, then used contrast
enhancement, color filters (some the originals were on colored paper) and
de-flecking tools on a number of pages with good results.

You might want to download the trial editions of Adobe Photoshop Elements or
Jasc Paint Shop Pro and try it out.
Received on Mon Aug 11 2003 - 11:29:00 BST