DIY Book Scanner

Emil58 wrote: ↑

19 Aug 2016, 03:18

I use ScanTailor for Mac and it works fine, but I can't to use the new Experimental ScanTailor on Mac.

would you like to give me a mac osx version ready to run?

Thanks in advance

Emil

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jbaiter wrote: [*]Shoot in RAW/DNG

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