[johnfowles]

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Originally Posted by johnfowles

as far as i could determine or imagine darryl it seemed obvious to me that you had your scanner settings at too low a contrast so i set out to try to improve it using the remarkable ability of image manipulation programs.
I firstly opened the original jpg file in the freeware gimp (gnu image manipulation program) and was then easily able to modify/adjust the brightness and contrast very satisfyingly
i then needed to try to remove the surplus empty spaces, but not finding an option to do that in gimp i opened the image in microsoft paint, and found that due to the huge image resolution i could only see a small part of the image and i admit that it took me quite a while before i realised that i could use paint's zoom control to temporarily get the complete image within the display area in order to select the main part to be retained, then whilst still in paint i zoomed out to return to the original size then it was easy to resize the image to 640 pixels wide, see below:-

i then uploaded the reduced size (640 pixels) copies of both of your two original and my modified cover images to the photos area of my facebook account from where i could then get their internet addresses or urls so that i can display them here within the text, and in due course include in a little tutorial which is the result of my long time interest and research into the capabilities of ocr (optical character recognition) that i found i could compile,store and link to in the notes section of my own facebook account(see link below)
do note everybody that these two images are therefore stored on facebook and take up not an iota of florian's valuable web storage space (or quota), that he alone pays for, the dear boy, whereas darryl's original two image attachments take up 2.54+5.76mb= 8.40mb.
(neither of course do any images that you find (or upload to) anywhere on the internet use up florian's quota so that the cost of storage and bandwidth is paid by others(such as the erstwhile shareholders of facebook!!))
i am putting the finishing touches to a pair of tutorials that i will be adding to my facebook notes folder
one will consolidate a series of five postings i made to my timeline demonstrating how to get the internet address (a.k.a the url) of any image on any web page using the three most popular windows browsers
the other is ocr
using as an example the text included on the scan of a newspaper article attached to this posting by darrylk
when completed i will provide links to those two pages
ok, the first one one on ocr is complete and is at
https://www.facebook.com/notes/john-...07425825582846