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    ScanTailor

    • Free • Open Source
    • Windows
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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. Scanning, optical character recognition, and assembling multi-page documents are out of scope of this project.
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    • Image Correction
    • Deskew
    • OCR

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    • Negative comment • more than a year ago • 4 users agree and 3 don't • 1 reply
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    ScanTailor is a promising open source app for deskewing scanned images; for example, to straighten a scanned book page image so that the lines of text are horizontal. Indeed, ScanTailor is able to do that automatically quite well. I tried it on a scanned book project that had 180 scanned pages. All pages came out deskewed properly. However - and this is the fatal problem - it trims away parts of the image as it deskews, and if you continue with its mandatory processing steps, it trims and hacks the pages into bits. There are no overrides to stop it doing this. So basically it cannot be used to scan a book and create a neat digital copy, because the head of the page canvas will be trimmed off to the top of the first line of text, and any photographs bleeding beyond the text block will be trimmed (and the page canvas as well). It also arbitrarily adds white space to the page foot. These are things that of course you want control over, but you can't stop it doing this. I guess if you manually controlled each page you could get a good result, but when you have hundreds of pages, you want an automatic tool, working on each page on-by-one isn't viable. It's such a pity that ScanTailor goes feral on the images after deskewing, because the deskew function itself works so well and so automatically. But in the end, I found it to be an app that I couldn't use.

    celandinecrane

    These statements are untrue.
    You can elect to manually set page type and content area and give it no margins to avoid it "trimming and hacking the pages into bits".

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    soulrain24560
    Comment • more than a year ago • 0 replies
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    This can only edit image files just so you know. I use BRISS and PDF Split&Merge Basic for editing scans that are already in PDF format.

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    Very useful in fixing up scans,to make them more legible.

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    • Positive comment • more than a year ago • 1 users agree and 1 doesn't • 0 replies
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    A great app to digitize books, there is an advanced version of the program : scantailor advanced. It fixes bugs from the original program

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    itamarga81750
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    • Positive comment • 10 months ago • 0 replies
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    Fantastic tool for scanning books into pdfs

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    Office & Productivity

    Tags

    • Fix orientation
    • post-processing
    • page-splitting
    • pdf-repair

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    Summary and Relevance

    Our users have written 7 comments and reviews about ScanTailor, and it has gotten 56 likes

    • Developed by Joseph Artsimovich
    • Open Source and Free product.
    • Average rating of 3.7
    • 17 alternatives listed

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    ScanTailor was added to AlternativeTo by on Oct 26, 2010 and this page was last updated Apr 6, 2020. ScanTailor is sometimes referred to as Scan Tailor.
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