Got a handwritten file with some annotations that are important but...were made in pencil!
Is there any feature inside the Pro version that has a way of darkening / raising the contrast?
Many thanks,
Brody
Raise Contrast / Darken
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brody-xr3
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Raise Contrast / Darken
Hi,
Got a handwritten file with some annotations that are important but...were made in pencil!
Is there any feature inside the Pro version that has a way of darkening / raising the contrast?
Many thanks,
Brody
Got a handwritten file with some annotations that are important but...were made in pencil!
Is there any feature inside the Pro version that has a way of darkening / raising the contrast?
Many thanks,
Brody
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Re: Raise Contrast / Darken
Hello Brody,
Open your file with the scanned images in it, and click on the "Edit" tool, then right click your image and in the context menu that will appear you will have "Edit Image" option. Select that and you can then open your image in an external image manipulation software, make changes to is, save the updated image, and when you close the image software - the image in the Editor should also update:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhnCAZUw2cA
Regards,
Stefan
Open your file with the scanned images in it, and click on the "Edit" tool, then right click your image and in the context menu that will appear you will have "Edit Image" option. Select that and you can then open your image in an external image manipulation software, make changes to is, save the updated image, and when you close the image software - the image in the Editor should also update:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhnCAZUw2cA
Regards,
Stefan
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brody-xr3
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Re: Raise Contrast / Darken
Ah-MAZING!!! ))))))))))))))))))
Thanks!
B.
))))))))))))))))))Thanks!
B.
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brody-xr3
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Re: Raise Contrast / Darken
Hi,
Ah! One small challenge. In this case the entire document is scanned. And, its long. Is there any way to apply the changes to all the pages at once? Or, do I need to go through them one by one? If not all at once, any other work-around? A few pages at a time?
Thanks,
B.
Ah! One small challenge. In this case the entire document is scanned. And, its long. Is there any way to apply the changes to all the pages at once? Or, do I need to go through them one by one? If not all at once, any other work-around? A few pages at a time?
Thanks,
B.
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Stefan - PDF-XChange
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Re: Raise Contrast / Darken
Hello B,
PDF pages are independent from one another - so each page has an image on it, that is (usually) in no way related to images or any other content on other pages (it is possible to have some types of objects in a PDF file that repeat on several pages, but scanned files are not one of these types).
And you apply the changes in an external software- so there's no way to automate this process currently I am afraid.
We are working on some image optimisation tools that will be built in our own products, so in the future it will be possible to automate some parts of this task, but not at the present.
What I can think of as a workaround that might work for e.g. a few hundred pages document is to:
1) Use our PDF Tools to extract all the images from all the pages in the document
2) Process all the images in an external image editing software
3) Create a new PDF file from the processed images.
This might not be worth it for a 3-5 page document, but if there are 50+ pages - the above process will certainly be faster than fixing pages one by one.
Regards,
Stefan
PDF pages are independent from one another - so each page has an image on it, that is (usually) in no way related to images or any other content on other pages (it is possible to have some types of objects in a PDF file that repeat on several pages, but scanned files are not one of these types).
And you apply the changes in an external software- so there's no way to automate this process currently I am afraid.
We are working on some image optimisation tools that will be built in our own products, so in the future it will be possible to automate some parts of this task, but not at the present.
What I can think of as a workaround that might work for e.g. a few hundred pages document is to:
1) Use our PDF Tools to extract all the images from all the pages in the document
2) Process all the images in an external image editing software
3) Create a new PDF file from the processed images.
This might not be worth it for a 3-5 page document, but if there are 50+ pages - the above process will certainly be faster than fixing pages one by one.
Regards,
Stefan