Texture causes glare and shadows from the light in the scanner, reducing scan quality.

If you are using a CIS scanner, lightly textured prints should be scanned twice, once upside up (0 degrees) and then again upside down (180 degrees), then the two scans can be combined in Photoshop using File > scripts > statistics > “Choose Stack Mode: Mean”. Add the two scans to the “Source Files” box, make sure “Attempt to Automatically Align Source Images” is checked, and click Ok. This combines the two prints into two layers with the top layer set at 50% transparency.

Using a CIS scanner, heavily textured prints should be scanned four times (0, 90, 180, 270 degrees) and the four scans combined using the “Median” stack mode.

Here's an example before-and-after using this method:

Inspiration for this technique was from the following articles:

• https://photo.stackexchange.com/a/33472/77063
• page 110 of “Digital Restoration From Start to Finish” by Ctein

A scanner that supports VueScan's Show Texture¹⁾ option automatically removes texture when this option is turned off.

Example 1, Epson V370 vs. Epson V600:

Example 2, “Show Texture” turned on vs. off: