How to get a good clean newspaper scan?

Posted by itsadok on Super User See other posts from Super User or by itsadok
Published on 2009-07-21T14:47:51Z Indexed on 2010/05/09 3:18 UTC
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I tried a few times to scan newspaper articles, but the images I got were always blotchy and with bad colors (sort of like this).

Sometimes I see some really good scans, like this. What is the trick to get such good results? Do I need some high-quality scanner, or do I need some good photoshop filters?

If there was something I could do using free tools it would be awesome.

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