On 16/07/2004 15:57, Campbell, Chris (CCM) wrote: > The early ones are on very thin paper. With apologies if I'm teaching Grandma to suck eggs ... the trick here is to scan with a sheet of black paper behind the sheet you are scanning. That way you get an even background shading (which can be removed with some image processing) rather than an impression of the text on the other side. regards, Malcolm.