Tool to clean scanned pictures

[Paul Smith]

On 8/18/07, Andrew Robinson <awrobinson-ml at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> > I have got a TIF picture like the one at
> >
> > http://phhs80.googlepages.com/example01.png
> >
> > Is there some tool to get rid of the gray around the word 'Because'? I
> > have already tried unpaper, but not having been successful.
> >
> If this were a one-off application, I would use The Gimp's select by
> color tool.

Thanks, Andrew and Robin. Your advice was helpful.

Paul