DIY Book Scanner

I'm not sure about that But I am sure (reporting my experience). For instance if I extract all the images of a ClearScanned document using pdfextract, some images can be text, and that text is not on the Text layer (after separation). Likewise, that text will appear on the Images layer if you separ...

@cday Thank you for your kind message and sharing your thoughts. It would probably be easy for Adobe to add an option to omit background images from generated ClearScan files if a need were identified The thing is that ClearScan sometimes fail to recognize text, so text elements may still be part of...

What's the file size difference before and after your PitStop process? You'd think that those "almost all white" backgrounds would compress fairly well. @dpc You're quite right that the almost white backgrounds compress well, but with one per page, they add up. On a recent scan for a 330-...

After ClearScan, to remove background images, this post explains how you can use a commercial Acrobat plugin. This has limitations (apart from the hefty price or free trial expiry), as you have to select the page ranges to target, so I'm currently looking for a free program that would perform this t...

Most of the steps in my workflow are absolutely classic, but I'd thought I'd share it as I haven't seen the last step mentioned. The typical kind of book I scan has images, so I run ScanTailor in grayscale. 1. Clean up in Scan Tailor (grayscale because of the images) 2. Assemble 3. ClearScan 4. Sepa...

Hi all, this is my first post. For years I've tinkered with scanning some of my old creaky books in order to preserve a readable version. By reading here, lurking there, I've slowly managed to improve the quality of my scans. Does this software exist? There is one piece of software that would really...