{"id":2083,"date":"2015-02-16T21:25:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T08:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2015-02-16T21:28:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T08:28:57","slug":"scanning-tips-stop-back-page-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/?p=2083","title":{"rendered":"Scanning tips &#8211; stop the reverse side shinning through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-2084 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gimpremovingghostimages1.jpg\" alt=\"Removing Ghost Images\" width=\"700\" height=\"103\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gimpremovingghostimages1.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gimpremovingghostimages1-150x22.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gimpremovingghostimages1-300x44.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gimpremovingghostimages1-500x74.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>When scanning booklets, in particular, you can occasionally get images from the back of the thing you are scanning as above. Sometimes this is barely visible sometimes it is incredibly obvious and really annoying.<\/p>\n<p>The simple answer is to place a <strong>black<\/strong> sheet of paper or cardboard directly behind the page you are scanning:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2085\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gimpremovingghostimages2.jpg\" alt=\"Put black card at the back\" width=\"350\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gimpremovingghostimages2.jpg 350w, http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gimpremovingghostimages2-150x104.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gimpremovingghostimages2-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You need to ensure that your black card covers the back of the page completely or at least as much as you are scanning otherwise you will have it showing an edge.<\/p>\n<p>The result is:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2087\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gimpremovingghostimages3.jpg\" alt=\"Final Product\" width=\"800\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gimpremovingghostimages3.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gimpremovingghostimages3-150x21.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gimpremovingghostimages3-300x43.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/gimpremovingghostimages3-500x71.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When scanning booklets, in particular, you can occasionally get images from the back of the thing you are scanning as above. Sometimes this is barely visible sometimes it is incredibly obvious and really annoying. The simple answer is to place a black sheet of paper or cardboard directly behind the page you are scanning: You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,178,58],"tags":[45,274,272,273,271],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cd-archiving","category-gimp","category-how-to","tag-background","tag-ghost-images","tag-gimp","tag-graphics","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/2094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoyinc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}