There’s also https://scantailor.org/ (and a maintained fork at https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced ) which semi-automates unwarping and other corrective tasks in scanned books.
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over 1 year ago
Scantailor (https://scantailor.org) is the tool for self-scanned books that exist in images (png, jpg, etc). However, I usually use Irfanview with PDF plugin (https://irfanview.com – download both Irfanview and the Plugins from this home page) I have elsewhere in r/PDF shown how you can do batch splitting of two-page scans, clean up muddy pages (yellowed or browned) . In the Reddit search box, search for…
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over 1 year ago
Scantailor https://scantailor.org/ might be useful.
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over 1 year ago
Scantailor is a good open source option that has a lot of features centered towards this process.
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over 1 year ago
I use OCRmyPDF on a regular basis to OCR journal articles my library sends me. I’ve found it works great on English but (with appropriate language packs installed) works poorly on Greek and Hebrew. It also makes no effort to understand the layout of pages (e.g., tables). The project is fantastic, though. I’ve often considered building a web frontend that cleans up PDFs and then OCRs them using OCRmyPDF. For…
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about 2 years ago
– Load the images into a program called scantailor, its an old program but very solid, free and open source. It loads all the TIFs for post processing, it is able to detect and separate pages, rotate and deskew them, detect the content of the page, and cleans up the scan very nicely. It even detects what part of the content is text and what are images, meaning your images will still be shown in RGB, whereas text…
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over 2 years ago
You can try using a program like ScanTailor. You will have to import all the images to the program and let run the program on default settings. The only gripe with this option is, the output images are huge. I have not used it in a while. Maybe there are improvements to the program.
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over 2 years ago
You typically need to pre-process the images. I’d recommend https://scantailor.org/ for this (OSS, but.
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about 3 years ago
After this, make a new project in Scan Tailor. This lets you fix up images and allows OCR apps to read the text much better.
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about 3 years ago
