Repairing aging due to glue

This is not something to do in Lightroom. You have a lot more options in Photoshop. Here's a very quick attempt to show you what Photoshop can do. Of course this can be improved a lot if you're willing to spend more than the two minutes I did.

Thanks, Johan.

I don't use Photoshop. Most of my manipulations are pretty straightforward and organizational. I do have Photoshop Elements. Can I use that?

If so, any clues?

Thanks,
Dave

Lightroom can make some adjustments with the tone sliders after doing a -100 Saturation adjustment-
Image 1

If I thought the words in the document were more important than the image, I would use a program that uses Optical Character recognition and convert the words to a text document- (Might need lots of corrections)
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You could use Photoshop Elements-
Try
1. De-saturate the image
2. Use Levels or Curves to isolate the Black letters on a white background. The problem areas will be the darker 'gluey' areas.

If all of these files are documents, the using OCR app would create a clean copy from the text.

I found a solution how to do this in Lightroom using the Adjustment Brush in Auto Mask mode. Works great.

Thanks for all the suggestions.