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by b0bcat
19 Mar 2021, 17:47
Forum: HELP
Topic: safe hand removal of plastic binder combs
Replies: 7
Views: 10807

Re: safe hand removal of plastic binder combs

I may be missing some nuance here but this case seems a good example of where even a cheap edge scanner would be simple and effective - including an old (antique?) model such as the Plustek Opticbook 3600 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Plustek-91N-BBM31-A-Opticbook-3600-Scanner/dp/B00065KA72 - numerous ex...
by b0bcat
16 Dec 2020, 18:38
Forum: HELP
Topic: tiff alpha/transparency channel - utility to scan files for its presence?
Replies: 5
Views: 5882

Re: tiff alpha/transparency channel - utility to scan files for its presence?

Thanks for replies. Success! I installed https://imagemagick.org/download/binaries/ImageMagick-7.0.10-49-Q16-HDRI-x64-dll.exe -without selecting extra install options or adding program to path. Multiple web searches then ensued, including: https://www.imagemagick.org/script/escape.php %A :: image tr...
by b0bcat
15 Dec 2020, 15:28
Forum: HELP
Topic: tiff alpha/transparency channel - utility to scan files for its presence?
Replies: 5
Views: 5882

tiff alpha/transparency channel - utility to scan files for its presence?

Is there a free tool for MS Windows (preferred) or maybe Linux, Debian 10 Stable that can act in batch mode to find those tiff files in a folder whose headers/metadata indicate the presence of an alpha (transparency) channel (by which I mean the channel that can be removed manually by e.g. in GIMP o...
by b0bcat
25 Jun 2020, 14:28
Forum: Programs, Software releases, and more.
Topic: Make a djvu file and add ocr: DjVuToy; TiffDjvuOcr; CuneiDjVu
Replies: 22
Views: 41818

Re: Make a djvu file and add ocr [mixed text/image tif encoding to DjVu file]

Using Gimp v.2.8.18, DjVu Small and DjVu Imager to make a mixed text/image DjVu page from a single .tif image output by ScanTailor Advanced v.1.0.14. My preliminary notes for converting to DjVu one or two isolated tif files of mixed text/image. Simulating the "ScanTailor Featured" export t...
by b0bcat
25 Jun 2020, 13:46
Forum: Programs, Software releases, and more.
Topic: Make a djvu file and add ocr: DjVuToy; TiffDjvuOcr; CuneiDjVu
Replies: 22
Views: 41818

Re: Make a djvu file and add ocr [metadata injection]

At the weekend I explored two aspects of DjVu files: 1. injecting metadata into the file; 2. using Gimp v.2.8.18, DjVu Small and DjVu Imager to make a mixed text/image DjVu page from a single .tif image output by ScanTailor Advanced v.1.0.14. I set out here the outline notes of my initial fumbling e...
by b0bcat
09 Jun 2020, 12:16
Forum: Help with this site
Topic: Site certificate / YouTube channel
Replies: 1
Views: 7046

Site certificate / YouTube channel

Possibly an inane question but in the last week or two I've noticed my bookmarked url for DIY BookScanner http://www.diybookscanner.org/forum/index.php started throwing Firefox invalid site certificate errors* so I haven't visited in that time. Deleting the preceding www. today takes me here without...
by b0bcat
06 May 2020, 13:06
Forum: Programs, Software releases, and more.
Topic: bitmaps into vector graphics: cr2v.exe - anyone have it?
Replies: 4
Views: 8372

Re: bitmaps into vector graphics: cr2v.exe - anyone have it?

Thanks very much, I'll give it a test drive. Incidentally I see Inkscape v.1.0 is out as of 1 May: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0/ My interest in these as well as in potrace springs from the probably misguided idea of exploring whether any can produce from ScanTailor output greyscale or b...
by b0bcat
06 Nov 2019, 17:22
Forum: Programs, Software releases, and more.
Topic: bitmaps into vector graphics: cr2v.exe - anyone have it?
Replies: 4
Views: 8372

bitmaps into vector graphics: cr2v.exe - anyone have it?

I was briefly experimenting with potrace and came upon references to the early, free version of a similar (MS DOS) program, cr2v.exe which apparently used to live (nearly 20 years ago) at http://www.celinea.com/demos/cr2v.zip - but the link is to another location which appears not to have been saved...
by b0bcat
22 Sep 2019, 19:09
Forum: Programs, Software releases, and more.
Topic: Make a djvu file and add ocr: DjVuToy; TiffDjvuOcr; CuneiDjVu
Replies: 22
Views: 41818

Re: Make a djvu file and add ocr: DjVuToy; TiffDjvuOcr; CuneiDjVu

Hah, it's always the way: post something then find the more elegant solution. In the particular circumstances I since found that changing the filename of the target DjVu (which included an apostrophe) to x.DjVu (for example) and re-running the write command in HandyOutliner successfully wrote the bo...