[Nhcoll-l] Reading fadded/scratched off ink?

[Catharine Hawks]

Sometimes photography using an infrared filter is very successful.

Cathy

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Catharine Hawks

> On Jun 7, 2016, at 1:45 PM, Rachel Hawkins <rhawkins at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Frable, Benjamin <bfrable at ucsd.edu> wrote:
>> Hi all, 
>> 
>> 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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