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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> All the suggestions have been great. I’ll also suggest raking light. Get a flashlight, not too too powerful, and hold it at a low angle to the
label in a low light/dark area. If the pen or type was pressed into the paper hard enough you’ll see some of the valleys and ridges in shadow and light. This could also be combined with the photography mentioned below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 07, 2016 2:16 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nhcoll-l] Reading fadded/scratched off ink?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sometimes photography using an infrared filter is very successful.<o:p></o:p></p>
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On Jun 7, 2016, at 1:45 PM, Rachel Hawkins <<a href="mailto:rhawkins@fas.harvard.edu">rhawkins@fas.harvard.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Frable, Benjamin <<a href="mailto:bfrable@ucsd.edu" target="_blank">bfrable@ucsd.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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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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