Well. You know how you are supposed to write your seed phrase down ? Better write it with ink that does not sunfade ... missing 3 words out of my reddit vault

So i got my vault seed written down ages ago. With time I totally forgot about it, as I added it to metamask.

Long story short, metamask crashed, i managed to recover other accounts with their keys ... and one of those keys have barely visible words, because that damn ink sunfaded so bad i cant read it.

I managed to get most words using self made image processing algorithms, but three of them are really damaged. I thought i could extract the words as some forms lead to some letters, but I still cant get them right. thee reddit app keeps saying it is not valid.

Is there some open source software that could help "brute forcing" those 3 words ? I heard it used to work with 1 missing, but maybe 3 is too much. and i'd rather not spend my sunday coding that, i spent enough time on it.

There is not much on the wallet, but i'd like to transfer whatever is on it on another wallet, as I saw the vault gets discontinued.

I got it ! Ended up shining a strong light through the paper and i could finally detect the 2 missing words after guessing the first. Thank you all for your suggestions !

If you are ever in a similar situation:

1/ shining a strong light helps a lot outlining whatever was left

2/ Shining UV is also worth a shot - not too long as it may destroy the remaninging ink and paper.

Take a picture, then either manually push contrast to the max, or alternate opening and closing morphological transformations until you can read the text( applying those amplifies contours, which is what letters are)