Not my fix. The bleedthrough is still there, just masked a bit.

I wonder if it'd be futile to have a tag for "needs cropping"--both the source and this fix had some blank space at the bottom that needed to be cropped off (which I did for this upload). Many scans have that, and look a lot cleaner with it cropped off. It's as common an eyesore to me as anything else, and it's the simplest thing to fix.

It wouldn't hurt to add 'needs_cropping' to the faults tags.

What technique did you use to reduce the bleed-through?

I didn't do it, but it's just levelling.