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How to get a good clean newspaper scan?

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Mar 15, 202636977 views

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I tried a few times to scan newspaper articles, but the images I got were always blotchy and with bad colors, sort of like this: Sometimes I see some really good scans, like this: What is the trick to get such good results? Do I need a high-quality scanner, or some good Photoshop filters? If there …

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its old school, but put a sheet of black paper behind the newspaper. A lot of the issues are caused by the fact that newsprint is thin poor quality paper. The scanner sees the front and the back of the page at the same time. Black paper matches the …

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