Scantailor-Experimental IPEP
winget install --id=IPEP.Scantailor-Experimental -e Scan Tailor Experimental is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages.
Scantailor-Experimental is an interactive post-processing tool designed to enhance and refine scanned pages. It specializes in operations such as page splitting, deskewing, border management, content selection, and image cleanup, preparing documents for output formats like PDF or DJVU.
Key Features:
- Page Splitting: Automatically or manually split dual-page scans into individual pages.
- Deskewing: Corrects the angle of skewed scanned pages for a straight appearance.
- Border Management: Adjust or remove borders to optimize content presentation.
- Content Selection: Focus on specific areas of interest within scanned pages.
- Image Cleanup: Enhances image quality by removing noise and artifacts.
Audience & Benefit: Ideal for individuals and institutions involved in book scanning, libraries, archives, and historical document preservation. Users benefit from streamlined post-processing to create clean, readable documents without the need for OCR or assembly tools. It is particularly valued by professionals requiring high-quality scanned outputs.
Installation can be efficiently handled via winget on compatible systems. Scantailor-Experimental serves as a vital tool in transforming raw scans into polished, ready-to-use documents, enhancing efficiency and precision in post-processing tasks.
README
ScanTailor-Experimental
Based of Scan Tailor - scantailor.org
About
Scan Tailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. It performs operations such as:
- page splitting,
- deskewing,
- adding/removing borders,
- selecting content
- ... 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.
Scan Tailor is Free Software (which is more than just freeware). It’s written in C++ with Qt and released under the General Public License version 3. We develop both Windows and GNU/Linux versions.
History and Future
This project started in late 2007 and by mid 2010 it reached production quality.
In 2014, the original developer Joseph Artsimovich stepped aside, and Nate Craun (@ncraun) took over as the new maintainer.
For information on contributing and the longstanding plan for the project, please see the Roadmap wiki entry.
For any suggested changes or bugs, please consult the Issues tab.
Usage
Scan Tailor is being used not just by enthusiasts, but also by libraries and other institutions. Scan Tailor processed books can be found on Google Books and the Internet Archive.
- Prolog for Programmers. The 47.3MB pdf is the original, and the 3.1MB pdf is after using Scan Tailor. The OCR, Chapter Indexing, JBIG2 compression, and PDF Binding were not done with Scan Tailor, but all of the scanned image cleanup was. [1]
- Oakland Township: Two Hundred Years by Stuart A. Rammage (also available: volumes 2, 3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, and 5.2) [2]
- Herons and Cobblestones: A History of Bethel and the Five Oaks Area of Brantford Township, County of Brant by the Grand River Heritage Mines Society [2]
Installation and Tips
Scanning Tips, Quick-Start-Guide, and complete Usage Guide, including installation information (via the installer or building from from source) can be found in the wiki!
Installation on Windows
On Windows 10 1809 or higher to install Scantailor-Experimental just use command:
winget install "Scantailor-Experimental"
You can also download binaries from Release page.
Additional Links
- Linux Guide to Book Scanning
- DIY Book Scanner Forum
- Scan Tailor Subforum from the above.