Frontispiece of "Guldener Himmels-Schlüssel; Das ist: hoch-nothwendige Unterrichtung/ recht und vollkommenlich zubeichten" (VD17 12:105109E ) from a 1692 printed book copy featuring the digital correction of fingers scanned during the process.

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   Daniel Bellingradt (dbellingradt@historians.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 21:15:02 JST Daniel Bellingradt

   And this happens when fingers that were used to hold down a book's page to be scanned were captured, and a software "repairs" this space automatically afterwards. In short: the scanned image is corrected by filling the problematic space with new content. In this case, this filling didn't fit too well: you see a "en=" text part from a different print, and some very bad pixel space. Welcome to the complex digital narrative of old printed books.

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