The look of a page
Clean up photos of documents
Shadows, uneven light and a grey cast make a photo of paper look like a photo. Choose a look for each page, and see what it keeps.
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Use this when a page photographed at home looks dark, yellow or shadowed. Choose the look per page, or use one for all pages.
For example
A task you can finish here
For a typed letter with a shadow across it, choose Black and white for small, crisp pages; for a form with a red stamp, choose Colour document to keep the stamp red.
The workflow
Three clear steps
- 01
Open the pages
Take or choose photos, and check their corners.
- 02
Choose a look
Original, Colour document, Grayscale or Black and white. Each says what it can lose.
- 03
Check before saving
Look at each page; change a page back to Original when something faint is lost.
Your photos and the public site
Open photos only in the separate Scan workspace. Its processing runs in your browser; this public site does not receive your photos, their names, the pages or any setting.Read the privacy information.
Questions
Which look makes the smallest file?
Black and white: its pages are 1-bit images, usually a few kilobytes each at Standard detail.
Ready to make the pages?
Your photos stay unchanged.
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