<div dir="ltr">Where I've worked with images of specimen labels, I've used Photoshop (or similar program) to play with contrast and color channels, and that was somewhat helpful in picking out faded characters.<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Frable, Benjamin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bfrable@ucsd.edu" target="_blank">bfrable@ucsd.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I am processing some older samples and am encountering a lot with faded pen ink or old type-written with the characters falling off the label. I can see that there is still evidence of the other characters, but cannot make some of them out. Does anyone have
any recommendations for this such as a using a blacklight or some other sort of light/method to read the ink?
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