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Subject: [GBR] Re: Quality of copies of original registers and census pages
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 10:44:56 GMT
References: <HI468.2919$EI.14675@tor-nn1.netcom.ca>


On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 "Ken Boyce" <> wrote:
>Before my retirement I regularly sent out old unreadable blue prints for
>electronic "enhancement" which came back as readable prints. The technology
>used is well established and is similar to that used in space technology for
>detecting non-random signals from background hash. It is used in producing
>photograph and maps of remote locations in space.

Interesting - I daresay this sort of service could be practically offered
on a page-at-a-time service over the web (tiff in, jpeg out) as a
commercial opportunity. Do you have any vendor names to go on?

Bob

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