How to make the text readable?

[Machadojon]

(06-02-2021, 04:29 PM)Machadojon Wrote:

(06-02-2021, 06:21 AM)PixLab Wrote: There is definitively some text at the bottom right!
Most of the text was washed out (water/humidity?) as the bottom of the image seems to have suffer from water.
Just above the "signature" in the red circling on the png I did, you can clearly see that some one did "frost" it with a finger (or it's water damage), this part might not be recoverable.
The owner should scan it in 2 modes ->in B&W and in color BUT put that corner in the center of the scanner! or take a picture with a tripod of that corner only right in the center of the picture
Also it would help to know in which language it was written, actually I'm reading on the last line "I'm Fine" which is wrong if it was written in Portuguese


or
https://imgur.com/a/3nduOwN

Hi I’m the owner of the picture has more than 150 years old and because the age the info was washed out! The language it is in Portuguese.
I do have a good camera to take the picture any exposure or configuration that could provide a better result?

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1...sp=sharing
I took a photo with different exposures. For me looks like that the last word it is Pinheiro (make sense because it is the surname of my great grand father the original owner.

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(06-02-2021, 05:10 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: If you have a true macro lens, take a close up shot with a "decent" aperture (f/5.6 or f/8).

If you have a standard zoom lens, take a shot using the long side (but not the longest) also at some rather open aperture (but not the most open).

Make sure that the lens axis is perpendicular to the paper: trick: take a small flat mirror, and draw a cross on it with a sharpie. Put the mirror on the drawing. When the cross is exactly at the center of the mirror image of your lens in the viewfinder, you are exactly above the cross and perpendicular to the mirror (and therefore to you picture, once you have removed the mirror).

To check perpendicularity alone, if you have a usable marking for the center of the viewfinder, you can center it in the center the mirror image of the lens (in my camera, the circle around the center is easy to align with the rim of the lens).



Then crop the picture to the important part and post it here without alteration.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1...sp=sharing

I took a photo with different exposures. For me looks like that the last word it is Pinheiro (make sense because it is the surname of my great grand father the original owner.