An easy way to eliminate pixel noise?

[Polkster]

I've attached an example. I draw a webcomic, which I hand draw in pencil and then scan. I scan in black and white, which, when I use the canoscan software usually eliminates the traces of the guidelines. I bought a new Canon scanner but I don't have that canoscan software so I use the Windows scanner manager and that turns the light gray guidelines into pixel noise. I figure the only difference is the software (canoscan vs. Windows), and so there must be some way to eliminate this noise via software as well.

Any suggestions?

I normally use the eraser tool but that can take forever.

 

[Polkster]

Bump; any advice?

 

[iDad]

Select what you need copy,delet all then paste

 

[Polkster]

If the speckling is connected to the main body then that won't solve much.

 

[2pixels]

Don't scan as black & white, scan as color or grayscale and use the threshold tool or any other useful Photoshop tool, this will always work better than what the scanner does, but don't expect miracles.

 

[Polkster]

What is "any other useful photoshop tool"?

 

[iDad]

what part of that image is main body?

 

[2pixels]

What is "any other useful photoshop tool"?

If parts beside the lines keep popping up, then obviously there is not enough contrast, so increase contrast with curves for example (before using threshold), it's all about observing what you see.
Your problem is still dat you expect miracles and trust me, they're not going to happen.

 

[Polkster]

Increasing contrast increases darkness of the dots, it does not eliminate them.