DIY Book Scanner

As I use books in pdf format as a source for TTS, I compared also, how they are read by Moon Reader Pro + Ivona TTS engine on my Android phone. The main problem was that there are erroneous additional paragraph breaks in random places what makes the listening less fluent and comfortable. I need to ...

Thanks! I am already using Scantailor for cropping, but am looking for software that would get rid of excess white space around text, and fingers, to edit my scans with before I start working with Scantailor. I use Scan Tailor Advanced for this, i.e. in order manually select area, where STA looks a...

Does anyone know of useful software for cropping scans that runs on Mac Os? I think this thread answers more or less to your question: https://forum.diybookscanner.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&p=21785&sid=0ab34fa7fd0f5ee70fc925d0d99c4f21#p21785 In short, I would recommend Scan Tailor Advanced. It is able...

I do not expect that Scan Tailor is able to provide perfect or very good results without some manual corrections. It is universal tool but it seems you would need something more customized and tailor made. Maybe something based on OpenCV?

PDF in Abbyy. djvu with djvu small mod. I do not have much experience with Abbyy Finereader. However I would guess is that in case of 1 bit pictures there is jbig2 compression applied and no MRC compression is necessary. In case of grayscale images, algorithms do separation of foreground (letters) ...

some screenshots in order to make my above comments more clear. Zrzut ekranu z 2019-07-17 20-33-54.png Zrzut ekranu z 2019-07-17 20-34-08.png Zrzut ekranu z 2019-07-17 20-41-41.png Zrzut ekranu z 2019-07-17 20-35-33.png Of course the book must be in the same position at each picture. Especially the ...

Scan Tailor Advanced has the 'crop' function. After 'Splitting' and 'Deskew' stages there is 'Page Box' in select content. There is rectangular selection (orange lines) that should cover the cropped area. You should apply 'Page Box' manual mode and 'Content Box' auto. Apply it separately to even and...

What software do you used for creating pdf and djvu files?

Hi Brandon,

Many thanks for sharing effects of your work with all. I'm convinced that not only me but many other people keep fingers crossed for implementation of something similar to Adobe ClearScan.

Cheers.

Hello Brandon,
Effects of binarization presented in form of two screenshots at your Github repository are really impressive. Do you have plans to add some interface to your algorithm for users that want to use it as standalone program?