Re: [Gimp-user] making a faded handwritten letter legible

[Ofnuts <ofnuts gmx com>]

On 5/5/19 9:03 PM, samkirk wrote:
> I have 2400 dpi images that were scanned of a 19th-century handwritten letter
> and they are very faded. I am wondering what to adjust in GIMP to try and make
> them more legible. Any help is appreciated.
>
> Attachments:
> * https://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/1165/original/letter_sample.tif
No plain image editor can deduce missing pixels if you can't do it as a
human.

What an image editor can do is tweak gray pixels to make them more (or
less) apparent to improve the legibility of the document. But for this
there should be grey pixels and you image only has pure black and pure
white ones.