[softwarelist] Re: Descreening halftone images

  • From: John Harrison <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 09:59:10 +0000 (GMT)

> I have a series of images scanned at 600 dpi from B&W "photos" in a 
> book, which I want to import into an OPW document. Of course, the 
> original halftone screen is visible and I want to descreen the images.

> Can anyone suggest a technique for doing this, or a piece of software 
> (ideally for a Mac) that would serve the purpose?

I have done this reasonably successfully a couple of times by repeated use
of the Filter (median or average, I forget which) in PlngScan. It needed a
bit of trial and error

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