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Old 16th Mar 2023, 3:04 pm   #1
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Default Unreadable Exploded Views from atrociously bad copying?

Does any Member have any tips for cleaning up a faint and atrociously badly copied exploded view diagram from a Denon Cassette Deck Service Manual please?

It's the UDR–F07 Cassette Deck from from a D–F07 Denon Component Hi–Fi system that's making noises of disintegrating plastics from the works somewhere, and the exploded view in the only pdf I can find is so atrociously badly copied that its impossible to make out details on it!

It's obvious that atrociously bad scan was taken from a paper original but I've not been able to find a paper original anywhere, or I would have bought one!

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Old 16th Mar 2023, 3:10 pm   #2
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Default Re: Unreadable Exploded Views from atrociously bad copying?

All you can do is read it into Gimp (or another image editor) and try adjusting the brightness and contrast. There are sharpening filters in there but they may not help much.
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Old 16th Mar 2023, 3:37 pm   #3
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Hi this is at least readable have comp manual 20 meg to large to post here Mick
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Old 16th Mar 2023, 7:49 pm   #4
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Default Re: Unreadable Exploded Views from atrociously bad copying?

Could you track down a manual for a different model that uses the same deck?
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Old 17th Mar 2023, 12:02 am   #5
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Default Re: Unreadable Exploded Views from atrociously bad copying?

The old adage 'junk in = junk out' applies, basically, you can't make a silk purse out of a pigs ear, no matter how good your tools.

I've just been down the same path with stuff from an unrelated hobby.
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Old 17th Mar 2023, 11:53 am   #6
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I don’t know if Micks post #3 is the same manual but hifiengine have a complete manual for the D-F07 and appears quite readable.
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Old 17th Mar 2023, 7:53 pm   #7
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I can't get anything from HiFi Engine I'm afraid, their automated system of Judge, Jury and Executioner all in one barred me after only downloading one manual!

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Old 18th Mar 2023, 7:33 am   #8
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Really? I regularly download stuff from HiFi Engine and it has never complained.
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Old 19th Mar 2023, 2:15 am   #9
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Seems to be here.

https://archive.org/details/manual_D.../n117/mode/2up

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