Remove Book Spine from Scanned Image

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skybook
Jul 1, 2008
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Does anyone have any tips for removing the spine of a book from a scanned image? Any useful techniques or tricks?

Thanks for your help.

Matt
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Silkrooster
Jul 1, 2008
Two things come to mind. 1) crop the image 2)use a rectangular mask and fill with the background color of the image.
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skybook
Jul 1, 2008
Thank you for your thoughts. Might anyone else have some ideas?
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BILL_HUNT
Jul 1, 2008
Skybook,

What color and texture is the paper of the scanned page? Do you wish to retain that color/texture?

If it’s white and there is no texture, that you want, then Silkrooster’s #2 is very good, and you can run Threshold on that area if need be. You might feather the Mask a bit on the "inside" edge.

If you want color and texture, AND have enough of a margin on the outside of the page to work with, you can create a Selection (Rectangular Marquee, Lasso, Pen Tool Path->Selection, etc.) of that clear margin, Ctrl-c (Copy), then Ctrl-v (Paste) to create a New Layer. Move it to the offending margin, and add a Layer Mask to hide any sharp deliniations, faults, etc.. If you need more details, should any of these prove useful, please ask.

Hunt
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Christopher_Carvalho
Jul 2, 2008
See <http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b4f486/13>

If you have "ghost text" in addition to the gutter, you’ll need to do a Select/Color Range or magic wand selection of a light gray color value and feather it with a very tight pixel radius in addition to the gutter before filling with white.
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Phosphor
Jul 2, 2008
Chris C. posted a good link, but make sure you read the whole thread: <http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.59b4f486>
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Christopher_Carvalho
Jul 2, 2008
Good catch Phos, thanks.

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