Restoration pipeline details: removing ink blobs via render-vs-original comparison

generativist · x · 2026-11-15

Part 5 of generativist's restoration thread: ink blobs and scan artifacts are removed by comparing the rendered output to the original scan. Artifacts outside margins and highly irregular ones are easy; others have high false-positive rates and remain work in progress.

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