Tool to clean scanned pictures

[Paul Smith]

On 8/17/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > I have got a TIF picture like the one at
> >
> > http://phhs80.googlepages.com/example01.png
> >
> > Is there some tool to get rid of the gray around the word 'Because'? I
> > have already tried unpaper, but not having been successful.
>
> Are these scans that you've done yourself?  It looks like it could be
> scanned better, in the first place, with better exposure/illumination.
> If so, you'd have a much easier job in neatening them up.
>
> That one reminds me of the sort of pictures I get from a 1970s video
> camera I have out the back.  ;-)  It had the same false glow around the
> edges of dark objects.

Unfortunately, I am not getting my pictures from a scanner, as I do
have the original documents; I have got only photocopies.

Paul