The glowforge scanned the recipe but picked up the notebook lines…how can I get rid of themlemon juice.pdf (420.1 KB)
eflyguy
September 17, 2020, 2:54am
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Start with the search function.
Read the existing discussions.
For example, just in the past couple of weeks:
recipefront.pdf (58.0 KB)
Hi- I am trying to eliminate the lines on the index card. I tried GIMP but no luck with youtube help. I am a teacher and do not have a photo shop license. Also tried the magic eraser app which helped but did not get all of the lines.
I’m SURE this question has been asked a thousand times but I’ve searched thru the posted articles and can’t find anything with instructions relating to Inkscape. I am NOT a techie person and have a hard time figuring things out but I’m getting there with Inkscape slowly but surely! Would love to learn how to take the lines out of a handwritten recipe if anyone can point me in the right direction? Thank you, wonderful people!!
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ekla
September 17, 2020, 3:15am
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Basically, it’s really not possible in the GF software besides fussing with how much of the trace is picked up which is detailed by @jules here Glowforge Interface - Using the Trace Tool 🤔 . Otherwise, you’ll need to work in some kind of separate editing program to clean up the image as @eflyguy mentions.
Original scan results look like this, not bad considering…
But say I actually wanted all of those pencil marks in there as a design element… holding down the CTRL or CMD key and slowly clicking the Down Arrow on the keyboard increases what gets picked up in the trace:
Going the other way, CTRL/CMD + Up Arrow will drop a lot of the noise and stray marks, but it also starts cutting into your shape a bit. (If there are only a couple of stray marks, you can try dragging a box around them and CTRL/CMD+X to cut them out, depending on how things are grouped.)
Best practice is to start with as clean an image as you can.
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I ended up using sketchbook on my iPad, using the pencil and coloring over the lines with the white color. It was tedious but for now it worked!
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thanks! I had not used the ctrl/cmd down arrow function before!
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November 2, 2020, 7:33pm
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