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Ubify Core Engineering Team
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About This Tool
Scanned study guides, university lecture handouts, and second-hand exam papers often arrive covered in distracting neon highlighter marks that make clean reading or black-and-white printing difficult. This utility restores readability to scanned document images by filtering out fluorescent ink while keeping handwritten notes and printed dark text crisp.
The tool loads your scanned page onto an HTML5 canvas and runs an RGB channel filter tailored to the optical properties of fluorescent inks. Yellow highlighters show elevated red and green values with suppressed blue, while green and pink markers show distinct spectral spikes. By replacing pixels matching these color signatures with clean white canvas background, the tool cleans up your study notes in seconds with zero data leaving your machine.
How to Use
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Upload a clear scanned image or photo of your highlighted paper (PNG or JPG).
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Select the target fluorescent ink color: yellow, neon green, or pink.
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The canvas filter identifies matching highlighter ink and replaces it with white.
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Inspect the side-by-side cleaned preview and download your restored document image.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the color filter erase highlighter without deleting black text?
Fluorescent highlighters have high brightness with strong channel imbalance (such as high red and green with low blue for yellow). Standard ink and printed toner are much darker across all RGB channels, allowing the threshold algorithm to target only the highlighter ink.
Can this tool process native vector PDF files directly?
The current filter operates on image formats such as scanned PNGs or JPEGs. If your study material is in PDF format, save or export the target page as an image before cleaning.
Is my scanned document uploaded to any cloud storage?
No. The image is processed exclusively in your local browser canvas memory. No files are uploaded to any remote server or cloud database.