From: rail@greywall.demon.co.uk   
      
   On 14/05/2020 20:04, knuttle wrote:   
   > On 5/14/2020 11:15 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:   
   >> My own experience with feed-mechanism scanners (on documents that   
   >> aren't particularly fragile) is that it's difficult to keep the   
   >> document straight; I haven't tried a desktop machine, though, only the   
   >> portable type (which I've always thought would be useful if I was   
   >> visiting someone else's home, and wanted to scan something they didn't   
   >> want to let leave their house but had a scanner).   
   > My solution to this is run the scans through a image processing program   
   > and clean it up before saving as a PDF   
   >   
   > By clean it up, I mean first square it to the paper to correct any   
   > missalignment caused by the scanner.  Once square, using the image   
   > processing tools to make the document more readable.  Mostly color   
   > corection, Red,green,blue, brightness, contrast, saturations, and Gamma   
   > correction.  Most of the time the gamma correction resolves most   
   > problems with the document.  The red,green, blue and other color   
   > adjustments can bring out things that were nearly lost when the document   
   > ages.   
   >   
   > While I can bring back the color to some photos, I still have not found   
   > software that can correct the Kodachrome and Kodacolor aging.   
      
   I've found fiddling with the Hue settings helps. Mind you, if you think   
   Kodachrome is difficult, try Agfachrome!   
      
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