Image extraction

Advice for texts containing images.

Images in books can be difficult to extract from the source documents for various reasons:

  • The scan may be very noisy or have very strong foxing or page discolouration
  • Text from the other side my bleed through the page
  • The source document may be damaged, either physically or through heavy image compression
  • The scanning process may result in blurred or obscured images

Careful choice of image source and careful extraction can ameliorate some of these issues.

For detailed guidance, see: Help:Image extraction - Wikisource, the free online library

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