DIY Book Scanner

Here you are: http://goo.gl/cDLTOQ

I don't know very well what you mean with that patch does, could you link an example?
I convert to pdf with pdfbeads, it chooses the best compressor for pages depending on their content.

I know about CDE and how it works, I talked to Philip Guo often years ago. I'll try pack gmic with CDE, but if your machine is so old that you have to install puppylinux...processing images will be really heavy work for it. And don't forget "CDE packed apps" eat more RAM than normal compil...

@Dingodog, what system do you use? I'm running linux in an old Debian Wheezy, I think it is 2012 ¿? And do you have gmic even in Squeeze repository.

@aku, yes. I used in the "repair" category, the "ians noise reduction" filter. In that category, there is another filter called "repair scanned documents", it does a good job too for getting a total white background, but I don't like totally colors result. Fot batch tre...

GMIC can apply filters to images really easily, and you can use it with a lot of files in a batch processing.
Here I used to clean the background without affecting letters.

Is there any thread with photo samples?
I'd like compare them with my results, I don't know if it is possible to achieve a better quality (definition, sharpness) or on the contrary I have to resign with I got.

Thanks.

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