clean up the background

[saxo08]

Hello, can anyone help me to clear the background and make the words in the document more readable.

thanks
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/98/49184017.jpg/

[0lBaldy]

Originally Posted by saxo08

Hello, can anyone help me to clear the background and make the words in the document more readable.

thanks
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/98/49184017.jpg/

Welcome to RetouchPRO Hope you enjoy your stay here and make lots of friends. Poke around, ask questions, have fun!

It would probably be easier if scanned in color with all automatic settings turned OFF and @ a high resolution...

What photo editing software are you using?

At the top of this page there is a 'Search' button.. click it and in the box that pops up enter the phrase.. faded writing .. that should provide you with many approaches to your problem..

Good Luck

[CathyH]

Well I gave it a quick try, by just using levels.

[saxo08]

Thank you all for the reply.
0lBaldy the document is originally black and white and i scanned it 1200DPI. and i am using photoshop cs5. are there any other software that i should be using?

CathyH i did you level in photoshop but i could not get the same result as you did. Thanks a bunch. can the image be further be improved??

Thanks you all for the help

[Repairman]

Looks like a ticket from Delhi to Hyderabad. Can't read the sanskrit though!

[saxo08]

Repairman you are right its a ticket from delhi to hydrabad. i was trying to see if there are other info in the image.eg date ..

[saxo08]

there are also stuff under hydrabad and vertical stuff on the left that i want to find out what it says

[Siciliana]

Do you have any clues? A date range you might have in mind? There are numbers along the bottom that could be a date but it would take some guesses to put it together. Seems as if it could be, from left to right 32309500 ??????? 1623 (or maybe 1620)
The vertical series on the left side looks like TKD 468 372 BZD(or maybe 820?) Looks like it says SLEEPER across the top. One guess is that it could be 12/30/95 or 02/30/95 for a date... ? Just guessing though.

Oh, and I am by no means a forensic specialist, so there may be tools out there I do not know about... just a photoshop user here.

[Chain]

A color scan would probably contain more information, especially if the text is a slightly different colour than the paper itself. Scan in 16-bit if possible so we have as much to work with as possible.
Also, save it as something lossless like PNG or TIFF. JPEG will destroy some information, and every bit might help when doing "restoration" like this.

[saxo08]

i will try scanning it with 16 bit and save it as png or tiff. thanks for the tip

thanks

[Chain]

Oh, and I almost forgot, beware auto-adjustments done by the scanner software. It might make it look better on the preview, but it might clipping some information.

[Repairman]

I think the text under Hyderabad is the ticket price in Rupees (Rs) followed by the date and train time.

[saxo08]

it would be great if i can clean the image to show the time and date.