DIY Book Scanner

I experimented with some implementations of the cardboard scanner concept and it seems that there are a few common issues that you apparently also encountered. It would be relatively easy to apply some improvements that may help in reduction of manual work during processing with Scan Tailor. Scan Ta...

Thanks 4lex4, I really appreciate the new release. Your instructions on this forum were helpful and finally I was able to compile and run for a while (Ubuntu 16.04). It works fast and I haven't noticed any problem with the STA. The only inconvenience for me is that the dewrap function works signific...

I am really happy that there is still development on ScanTailor. The Advanced version looks really great and seems to work seamlessly. I am even more happy seeing that there are also plans to adapt some features available in the Experimental version. I appreciate especially the dewrap correction bei...

I don't bother scanning any book I can get some other way. It just isn't worth the effort. Most of the books I want I can get one way or another, but some just aren't available for one reason or another. So those I scan. The same like me. However, I admit that there were books available only in pap...

If you do not mind me joining the discussion on making epubs from scans, I would be happy to share my some observations on this. I like to have more control over each stage of the process so now I prefer more “manual” approach. It takes more time and effort to finalize with the epub file, but gives ...

It is worth mentioning that Tesseract can produce pdfs with text layer on its own. It deals with multipage tiffs. So after creating multipage tiff, you may generate pdf with both image and text layer by using command like this: Tesseract -l eng input.tif output pdf gImageReader is the best Tesseract...

Hi jaffamuffin, There is a wiki on building Scan Tailor from source (Linux and Mac OS X) under this link: https://github.com/scantailor/scantailor/wiki/Building-from-Source-Code-on-Linux-and-Mac-OS-X I have experiences with building ST (Experimental Branch) on Linux only, but I suppose it should not...