1. A method for electronic color dropout utilizing spatial context to enhance accuracy comprising: a) scanning a document to produce a color digital image; b) applying a thresholding process to said color digital image to produce a bitonal image; c) select a region of said color digital image corresponding to a feature of said bitonal image; d) compute an average color for said region; e) compared said average color of said region to one or more predetermined dropout colors; f) if said average color matches any of said predetermined dropout colors, erase said region from said bitonal image; g) determine if all features of said bitonal image have been examined; and h) if all features of said bitonal image have not been examined go to step c) if all features have been examined, the process is complete.