Do you have many of these scans to capture, or are the the only ones?
If they were critical to a larger project, and you only need to work with these three…if this were my project I would think seriously about just redrawing them in Illustrator.
If it is not practical for you to redraw the illustrations, can you rescan them? I have had success with this problem by placing a sheet of black paper behind the sheet being scanned.
Trez
Thank you for anwering.
At this moment i need only this 3 files. I thought, it more efficient to modifie them in Photoshop CS3 or in Illustrator. I’m afraid of it’s not easy with my scanner to moving around scans like this (e.g. Quality of paper).
But, how to redraw them in Illsutrator? Could you tell my step by step how to do this?
Thank you in advance.
My last resort will be, rescan the 3 pages by placing a black sheet of paper:-) But where to get a black sheet at sunday in germany, all shops are closed…
But where to get a black sheet at sunday in germany, all shops are closed…
Print one on your desktop printer. Obviously a laser printer is preferable, but I suppose one could use an inkjet printer…
Once you do have a nice solid black sheet, keep it on file for just this purpose. Thin paper (and newspapers!) can be very difficult to scan cleanly.
OK, I will try to print a black side with my laser printer:-), at my last resort.
Could you tell me befor this how to redraw the jpeg in illustrator to an clearly path picture?
By the way, do you know how to scan single sides of a book wihtou these inner "edges" –> I mean the inner waves/shafts (its not plane).
Is there any trick?
::By the way, do you know how to scan single sides of a book wihtou these inner "edges" –> I mean the inner waves/shafts (its not plane).
Sadly, the only "trick" I know for this is to cut the book apart. You probably do not want to do this. Someone else may know a way, or there may well be specialized equipment that does not require destroying the book.
As for duplicating your illustrations in Illustrator or similar programs, I would place the image you wish to duplicate on the bottom layer, with that layer locked and dimmed. On a new layer above it, you can use the old art as a guide for quickly drawing new art.
Well, Trez, that’s almost true, at least for most people.
There are special hardware devices that are made specifically for capturing bound-book pages with the least amount of damage. Inverted v-shaped platen, special lighting, sometimes proprietary software that is able to correct for any gutter curvature and gradient exposure differences across the width of the page.
I don’t know about you, but it sure isn’t in MY budget!
🙂
I figured there had to be some such equipment — I couldn’t picture the Library of Congress and others who are digitizing valuable books destroying them. But I can assure you that from the point of view of my budget, it would be purely a figment of my imagination. :^)
inethacker,
the images can be much improved by increasing
the contrast until the background is uniformly white.
Image > Adjust > Brightness/Contrast
Tested for the first image: it is distorted.
The distortion cannot be compensated by a simple
rotation but by Crop/Perspective. Please read
the help text, or come back.
Best regards –Gernot Hoffmann
