On 8/17/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have got a TIF picture like the one at > > > > http://phhs80.googlepages.com/example01.png > > > > Is there some tool to get rid of the gray around the word 'Because'? I > > have already tried unpaper, but not having been successful. > > Are these scans that you've done yourself? It looks like it could be > scanned better, in the first place, with better exposure/illumination. > If so, you'd have a much easier job in neatening them up. > > That one reminds me of the sort of pictures I get from a 1970s video > camera I have out the back. ;-) It had the same false glow around the > edges of dark objects. Unfortunately, I am not getting my pictures from a scanner, as I do have the original documents; I have got only photocopies. Paul