Removing ball-point pen ink

What is the best solvent to use to defuse or remove ballpoint pen
marks from parchment, vellum or leather other than alcohol. Until
now I have been mechanically removing this type of ink.

Benjamin Cohen
Certified and Registered Sofer StaM/Scribe/Baal Mageah, rabbi,
artist


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