09-02-2017, 03:01 AM
I often ask questions in user forums and I must say that this seems to be the most useful I have ever encountered. A stream of good suggestions in no time at all. Brilliant!
I haven't had the opportunity to test everything out yet but I will. So far I have tried:
Blighty's suggestion on Floated selection (Pasted layer) and that works well.
Ofnuts' suggestion replacing from step 9. Works even better, simpler way for me to understand. Question: Why does the Export dialog suggest saving it as a png file when the original is jpg? As jpg is the most common format for me to save in it would be useful to have that as default.
Ofnuts' 2'nd suggestion in four steps. The result looks as good as the other ones and even simpler (which is good if it comes to automate (parts) of the process later).
Blighty's GMIC suggestion. I surprised myself by successfully installing GMIC. Didn't produce a result as good as the other ones but what can you expect doing a 30 second test. Might improve if I spend some time with it.
rich2005. Good mini-tutorial. Would have taken me quite some time to find out myself.
I did get one response in another forum. Putting a black sheet of paper under (or over depending how you see it) the page you're scanning. It's such a fun and extraordinary suggestion that I must try it out. It will however take five days for the paper I ordered to arrive so I'll report back on that. Must say I have mixed feelings about this. Nice if it works but it also means that I would have to scan all of the pages again.
I'm attaching the sample page I've been working with. It's a little bit cheaty as the only image on the page is nicely framed by black borders therefore not affected by the text manipulation but that's another thing to be dealt with later. (If you wonder the language is Swedish.)
Sample page
I haven't had the opportunity to test everything out yet but I will. So far I have tried:
Blighty's suggestion on Floated selection (Pasted layer) and that works well.
Ofnuts' suggestion replacing from step 9. Works even better, simpler way for me to understand. Question: Why does the Export dialog suggest saving it as a png file when the original is jpg? As jpg is the most common format for me to save in it would be useful to have that as default.
Ofnuts' 2'nd suggestion in four steps. The result looks as good as the other ones and even simpler (which is good if it comes to automate (parts) of the process later).
Blighty's GMIC suggestion. I surprised myself by successfully installing GMIC. Didn't produce a result as good as the other ones but what can you expect doing a 30 second test. Might improve if I spend some time with it.
rich2005. Good mini-tutorial. Would have taken me quite some time to find out myself.
I did get one response in another forum. Putting a black sheet of paper under (or over depending how you see it) the page you're scanning. It's such a fun and extraordinary suggestion that I must try it out. It will however take five days for the paper I ordered to arrive so I'll report back on that. Must say I have mixed feelings about this. Nice if it works but it also means that I would have to scan all of the pages again.
I'm attaching the sample page I've been working with. It's a little bit cheaty as the only image on the page is nicely framed by black borders therefore not affected by the text manipulation but that's another thing to be dealt with later. (If you wonder the language is Swedish.)
Sample page