Retouching Scanned Text in PS 4

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Sacha_Bellinger
May 31, 2004
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My job calls for me to scan(at 200%, 800dpi, in gray) images w/TEXT into PS 4. They are then cropped and changed into BITMAP mode, than placed into ILLUSTRATOR 6.
Once the text is changed into BITMAP, I retouch(clean up) it by using the Pencil tool and the Eraser tool, but this process takes way too long. And it doesn’t always look right.
What are the fastest ways to retouch scanned text? Are there any tips out there?

Thank you,
Sacha
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Pierre_Courtejoie
May 31, 2004
yes, look at <http://www.gurusnetwork.com/kpt/tip/4/> it is a good but perfect tip on the subject
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Ann_Shelbourne
May 31, 2004
Why don’t you just turn the scanned text back into real text and start from there?

It’s very quick and easy to do:

Ann Shelbourne "OCR which actually works" 5/26/04 7:59am </cgi-bin/webx?13>
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Sacha_Bellinger
May 31, 2004
Thank you very much, Pierre Courtejoie. The Guru Network gave me just what I needed. And now it will be one of my favorites sites.

Thank you,
Sacha B.
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Sacha_Bellinger
May 31, 2004
Thank you, Ann Shelbourbe. This info is also good, but we don’t have Adobe Acrobat. So we can’t do this.

Thank you,
Sacha B.

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