leo9lives wrote:
This is way too complicated for me. I was hoping for an easier way to make the page background white using GIMP. I will try to use Inkscape or printer-scanner software to whiten the pages.
Thank you all for your replies.
That is way too complicated
A person with a hammer sees everything as a nail
You may just be able to use the levels tool - that is comparable to what most scanners will use to clean up images automatically:
http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-levels.htmluse Colours->Levels, and in the dialog pull down the white input level (1) until the background is white, pull up the black level (2) until the text is black, then pull up the gamma adjustment (3) to get the best contrast with out the text getting all aliases (jaggies):
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Here is a sample using this technique on a source image I found on the web:
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-Rob A>