XnView Software

Thanks for you comments. First is this what you mean by "MP implementation" ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMP? I see a tag in the footer with those initials: same concept or another?

After I posted this last night I found some articles for using histograms. I sort of got the idea.
I took a ...

Sorry for the long delay in responding. Thank you for your thoughts.

I am a bit confused how you moved from my dark image to your nicely bright one.

Did you use Levels exclusively?

Image>Adjust>Levels?

I see Five options on that page. Which one do I use and which way do I move them to get to ...

What does this mean?

"This picture will be converted to RGB 8 bits per component"

Why does this message pop up when I load files?

Is this conversion an enhancement or softening of the image?

Or is just the way the software standardizes images?

I searched for an answer but could not find a ...

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Hello again,

I am starting to learn the app. Great fun. Great code. Thanks for all the work behind it.

I managed to rotate the attached test image from landscape to portrait. Ultimately I will want to rotate such images in a batch mode.

I am seeking something like a eye dropper (like in Gimp ...

Thanks for your replies.

The Books Scanner looks to be clever and interesting.
I managed to open the tiff file and rotate it from the menu.
Yes I was referring to what you call "EXIF" data.

I was right clicking on my image then going to the bottom of that menu to "Properties"
i also tried >Edit ...

Brand new. Not much experience with sophisticated digital photography yet.

What I am trying to do it archive 8.5 x 11 documents, some typed with most handwritten on school notebook paper. The lot is somewhere upwards of 5,000 pages. Some go way back and are very faded. They will need photo ...