Saving fading documents (wa Fading T(h)ermal Paper)

N
Posted By
NWEST1
Jul 11, 2005
Views
269
Replies
2
Status
Closed
Reviewing first responses to my query, it is obvious I did a poor job explaining what I was trying to do.

I have documents printed on light sensitive paper such as used on a fax, etc on which the printing is gradually disappearing. The printing is so faint that things like OCR are not an option.

I have scanned the document into Photoshop and tried things like level adjustment, selection by color, etc. and have come to the conclusion that I am wandering around rather aimlessly without a methodical and organized approach.

Since fading printing due to printing process, paper or age has to be a common problem, does anyone know of a turtorial on how to approach the problem in a systematic way?

I will appreciate any help I get.

Norm in Texas
Related Tags
document fade paper save

How to Improve Photoshop Performance

Learn how to optimize Photoshop for maximum speed, troubleshoot common issues, and keep your projects organized so that you can work faster than ever before!

I
Interested
Jul 11, 2005
Have all parts faded equally? Are the edges of the letters faded more than the center? What happens when you use Layers>Threshold?

"Norman H. West" wrote in message
Reviewing first responses to my query, it is obvious I did a poor job explaining what I was trying to do.

I have documents printed on light sensitive paper such as used on a fax, etc on which the printing is gradually disappearing. The printing is so faint that things like OCR are not an option.
I have scanned the document into Photoshop and tried things like level adjustment, selection by color, etc. and have come to the conclusion that I am wandering around rather aimlessly without a methodical and organized approach.

Since fading printing due to printing process, paper or age has to be a common problem, does anyone know of a turtorial on how to approach the problem in a systematic way?

I will appreciate any help I get.

Norm in Texas
B
Bj
Jul 17, 2005
If I understand you in the correct way, this problem shouldn’t be very hard to solve. The problem is, that you might not get me right, because I use the German version of Photoshop CS. In German you choose
Bild–>Anpassen–>Schwellenwert. Here you can choose the "Schwelle" between black and white and you see the result in the preview. If your documents are only containing black and white, this should be a good way to make them read after exporting by an OCR. If you want to convert more than one scan in this way you can make an "Aktion" and use the "Batch-Conversion-Modus".

If you need more help I can send you a picture from the steps I’ve explained above. It is only in German because of the German version, but the buttons in the English-Version should work the same way than mine.

Bj

MacBook Pro 16” Mockups 🔥

– in 4 materials (clay versions included)

– 12 scenes

– 48 MacBook Pro 16″ mockups

– 6000 x 4500 px

Related Discussion Topics

Nice and short text about related topics in discussion sections