sallyanne wrote:
Yes very good, Like to know how you got the white so white and the black so black. I tried all sorts of things but couldn't get it that good
Oh I'm sorry, didn't record the steps. I don't really have a dogmatic workflow for this kind of repair and it was quick run just before sleep.
But it went something like: Duplicate layer, blur (just a little), curves to get contrast.
Switch the layer mode to darken/multiply, new from visible.
Then I just tried to vanish the small pixels around the characters using different blending modes etc.
At some point in the beginning I also used morphological filter to bold the characters, and Gmic JPG Smoother.
The method in the link is superior compared to my trial and error run, you should check it out.