• Removing background

    From emf@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 15 08:02:36 2022
    Some pdf scanned books have a brownish background. How can I
    remove the background of these pdf file?

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  • From Joe Beanfish@21:1/5 to emf on Thu Sep 15 13:53:09 2022
    On Thu, 15 Sep 2022 08:02:36 -0400, emf wrote:

    Some pdf scanned books have a brownish background. How can I
    remove the background of these pdf file?

    That's probably the color of the paper. A scan is, after all, basically
    a picture of the page. You might be able to import it into an image
    editor and adjust the colors/contrast/threshold.

    If the book is also OCRed, you could use pdftotext or pdftohtml to
    extract the text and read it that way.

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