Deskew Alternatives

Deskew is described as 'Tool for auto-straightening or deskewing scanned text documents. Deskew detects the orientation of text lines in the image. It rotates the image so the detected lines are horizontal. It is a command line tool for Windows, Linux, and Mac' and is an app in the photos & graphics category. There are four alternatives to Deskew for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, iPhone, BSD and iPad apps. The best Deskew alternative is ScanTailor Advanced, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Deskew are YASW (Yet Another Scan Wizard), DocScan and Book Scan Wizard.

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  1. ScanTailor Advanced icon

    ScanTailor Advanced

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    Scan Tailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. It performs operations such as page splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, and others. You give it raw scans, and you get pages ready to be printed or assembled into a PDF or DJVU file.

    15 ScanTailor Advanced alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • ScanTailor Advanced is the most popular Windows & Linux alternative to Deskew.

    • ScanTailor Advanced is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Deskew.

    • ScanTailor Advanced is Free and Open SourceDeskew is also Free and Open Source
    • ScanTailor Advanced is LightweightDeskew is not according to our users
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    YASW (Yet Another Scan Wizard)

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    Download YASW for free. Yet Another Scan Wizard. YASW (Yet Another Scan Wizard) is an application used to correct images taken with a camera or scanner. It can be used to post process the scanning of a book.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    DocScan

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    When you need a digital copy of some paper document to send out, but there is no flatbed scanner nearby, it can help you!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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    • DocScan is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to Deskew.

    • DocScan is Free and ProprietaryDeskew is Free and Open Source
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    Book Scan Wizard

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    A utility to help with Book scanning using cameras as a scanner. It will automate things such as cropping, rotating, fixing keystoning, fixing the DPI, and outputing it to tiff files that can be changed into PDF's or ebooks.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Java
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