I have a scan of an old children book that contains both graphics and text. I want to revive the book for my children, while preserving as much as possible from the original layout and illustrations.

I have a very limited experience in this field. I thought of using `Photoshop`, which I have used in the past for other projects, but none of this kind.

My approach was to try and **segment each image**, **find the contours** and **fill the regions** with new uniform colors, based on the original colors, such that I obtain clean illustrations. Also, if possible, I want to get the text such that I don't need to retype it (but this is only a minimal problem, since the book does not contain too much text).

I don't know if this can semi-automatically be done in `Photoshop`. I found useful the `Trace Contour` filter, but I assume that there are also other tools that can be helpful in achieving a good results with a least manual effort.

Here is what I achieved so far, by a direct approach using the `Trace Contour` filter in `Photoshop`, then by manually filling the regions with uniform colors from the original scan.

How would you solve this task? Any hint or advice would be helpful.

**Original scan of the cover:**

![cover_scan][1]

**Partial result:**

![cover_result][2]

**Two more scanned pages from the book:**

![page 1][3]
![page 2][4]


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