Quote Originally Posted by handrawn View Post
if you can't read the text - do you have the paper document that was scanned?
Quote Originally Posted by Soquili View Post

With the original document and a very well equiped physics and optics laboratory you might be able to isolate the text if it was written in ink and not printed using a laser printer.
you can also use partially destructive methods on the original document [eg solvents] to try to bring out the original text to visibility if it is that important.... sometimes indentation of the paper can be used - but this sort of thing is sample dependent and is a forensic speciality