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 compley digital narrative of old printed books.
@dbellingradt Isn't it not just extremely risky to allow automated modification of such images but also completely useless? You will never recreate what's under the finger, so why would anyone even want to run such a software?
Is it a ghost? Is it a cloud? No, it is just a weird space created by a finger image removal technology trying to autocorrect the finger of the scanning person.
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