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

[Paul Smith]

On 9/6/07, Claus Cyrny <claus.cyrny at web.de> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> my guess is, that this would be very difficult. Inkscape has
> a feature that will do this. You have to trace the TIFF in,
> and in the next step, you can eliminate the background using
> the new SIOX plug-in. Inkscape is free; see at
> http://www.inkscape.org/. (I love it!) The autopackage has already
> all the necessary libraries.

Thanks, Claus. The "Trace bitmap" tool has already got a "remove
background" option. The final pdf is unfortunately very large (7 MB).

Paul