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How to make the text readable?
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(06-03-2021, 12:47 AM)Ofnuts Wrote:
(06-02-2021, 07:41 PM)Machadojon Wrote:
(06-02-2021, 04:29 PM)Machadojon Wrote: 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.

(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.

Looking closely (nice shots...) it seems the writing has made slight grooves, so using a razing light, shadows could make the writing stand out a bit more.
infurtunatelly I don't have a razing light. I tried to use some light to improvise, but didn't work. will tried to scan using the middle of the scan and B&W and color any other option or config in the scan??

(06-03-2021, 06:35 PM)Machadojon Wrote:
(06-03-2021, 12:47 AM)Ofnuts Wrote:
(06-02-2021, 07:41 PM)Machadojon Wrote: 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.


Looking closely (nice shots...) it seems the writing has made slight grooves, so using a razing light, shadows could make the writing stand out a bit more.
infurtunatelly I don't have a razing light. I tried to use some light to improvise, but didn't work. will tried to scan using the middle of the scan and B&W and color any other option or config in the scan??
I just add a new scan with tiff and 2 different configuration of the scanner using the only the maximum optical dpi
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1...sp=sharing
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Messages In This Thread
How to make the text readable? - by Krikor - 10-31-2020, 04:43 PM
RE: How to make the text readable? - by denzjos - 11-01-2020, 08:10 AM
RE: How to make the text readable? - by Krikor - 11-03-2020, 12:09 AM
RE: How to make the text readable? - by Krikor - 05-31-2021, 03:41 PM
RE: How to make the text readable? - by Ofnuts - 06-01-2021, 08:18 AM
RE: How to make the text readable? - by denzjos - 06-01-2021, 08:48 AM
RE: How to make the text readable? - by PixLab - 06-02-2021, 06:21 AM
RE: How to make the text readable? - by Ofnuts - 06-03-2021, 12:47 AM
RE: How to make the text readable? - by Machadojon - 06-03-2021, 06:35 PM
RE: How to make the text readable? - by Ofnuts - 06-02-2021, 05:10 PM
RE: How to make the text readable? - by PixLab - 06-08-2021, 06:36 AM

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