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Re: Red can't be Read



At 11:00 AM 7/22/00 -0400, Tom McCarthy wrote:
I have a friend who has
family letters from the 1800's with black ink across the page as you would
expect and for some reason, faded red ink running through the black and
pretty much at a right angle to it. He would like to know how he could
bring out the red writing so it can be read (or red again!).

Why not slap it on a scanner and apply garden-variety image processing
software:
-- it should be super-easy to find all the black and turn it white
-- it should be reasonably easy to increase the contrast on the faded red