Re: Can't OCR old faded typewriter text

Anders Thulin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > The original documents were typed on white paper with a typewriter and
> > probably a worn ribbon.  The characters are light, but quite legible
> > and very easy to read by eyesight... more of a gray.


If you don't have any luck with the scanning and OCR image fiddling
options, you might have luck with photoshop - work with a few sample
pages until you find the process that creates the clearest image (I
guess the threshold filter is a good place to start)- then you can
save the entire process as an action and batch process all the files
before sending them to the OCR software

-Derek