[magick-users] Setting the background color of a colored scanned image

[Paul Smith]

On 8/30/07, Ross Presser <rpresser at gmail.com> wrote:
> The best solution to this problem may be in the domain of JPEG2000 / djvu
> image segmentation algorithms.  Look up some scanned books on archive.org,
> particularly in djvu format. The djvu plugin lets you suppress the
> background completely ... so identifying what is "background" is part of the
> djvu construction.

Thanks, Ross and Anthony. My figure is available at:

http://rapidshare.com/files/52236170/example.tif.html

(Note please that the file has the size of 18MB.)

Paul




> On 8/29/07, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I have got a colored scanned TIFF image from a newspaper article. Can
> > ImageMagick be used to convert the color of the image background to
> > white, with no loss?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Paul
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