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- 10 Mar 2013, 20:56
- Forum: Tutorials/How-To's
- Topic: software for handwritten manuscript?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 15729
Re: software for handwritten manuscript?
If you just need the material in a form you can move from one machine to another, then yes, just take pictures of the handwritten pages and bundle up the JPEGs or convert them into a PDF. I'd use ImageMagick to convert the JPEGs into PDFs, and PDFTK to combine the individual one-page PDFs into a sin...
- 12 Feb 2013, 11:15
- Forum: Scan Tailor
- Topic: Include/exclude areas in the content selection stage
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7894
Re: Include/exclude areas in the content selection stage
For the type 2 stuff (noise incorrectly identified as content) Scan Tailor has the ability to draw exclusion zones (I forget the term Scan Tailor uses, it's been a while since I've used it) which is probably easier than editing them in GIMP and going through the autodetect again. As I recall, these ...
- 30 Jan 2013, 21:43
- Forum: R&D and New Technologies
- Topic: HoverCam ImPress Book Scanner
- Replies: 6
- Views: 21342
Re: HoverCam ImPress Book Scanner
5 megapixels is plenty, IMO, if the aspect ratio matches the dimensions of the book and you're shooting text. I've never seen a magazine with "legal pad" dimensions, so it might not be enough for what you have in mind. I'm not keen on the watermark/registration mandates, and wouldn't pay $...
- 29 Nov 2012, 22:12
- Forum: Programs, Software releases, and more.
- Topic: New Scanning Software - YASW
- Replies: 29
- Views: 41403
Re: New Scanning Software - YASW
Yes, when you add a picture, it gives you the standard "browse for it" option. Just go to the directory which contains all the "L" pictures, click on the first one, scroll down, and shift-click on the last one. The only feedback you'll get is your hard drive spinning, but it will...
- 29 Nov 2012, 11:35
- Forum: Programs, Software releases, and more.
- Topic: New Scanning Software - YASW
- Replies: 29
- Views: 41403
Re: New Scanning Software - YASW
Okay, I got around the black keystone/content controls by using GIMP to make a white image that was the same size as my photos, adding it temporarily at the beginning of the queue, dragging the controls into the middle of my "real" pages, then deleting it. I still think the application nee...
- 28 Nov 2012, 23:39
- Forum: Programs, Software releases, and more.
- Topic: New Scanning Software - YASW
- Replies: 29
- Views: 41403
Re: New Scanning Software - YASW
I really like the side-by-side left and right thumbnails. The one thing that makes it unusable for me right now is that the bounding box controls are black, and so is the border around my book. I end up clawing around with my mouse in the dark, trying to find the corner control so I can drag it wher...
- 28 Nov 2012, 21:25
- Forum: Programs, Software releases, and more.
- Topic: New Scanning Software - YASW
- Replies: 29
- Views: 41403
Re: New Scanning Software - YASW
That https://github.com/downloads/tibob/yasw/yasw_0.2.tgz file doesn't seem to exist. I cloned the new source using GIT; I'll try to find time to compile it and provide feedback. Thanks for sharing your work.
- 28 Nov 2012, 20:34
- Forum: Tutorials/How-To's
- Topic: My process using xxx
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6716
Re: My process using xxx
I watched the tutorial. I think forcing a uniform width and height is a good idea, but I didn't see whether you were giving feedback on the initial image to give some assurance that the initial choice was correct. If it runs for two hours with no feedback, I might be disappointed with the end result...
- 15 Sep 2012, 19:55
- Forum: Tutorials/How-To's
- Topic: Dr. Cheap's software & workflow
- Replies: 9
- Views: 13605
Re: Dr. Cheap's software & workflow
My biggest problem in the past with doing L and R together is that I sometimes need to manually set content area due to either unclean / marked originals (in cases where I do not want previous readers' margin comments) or due to some kind of bad glare or background texture that causes ScanTailor to...
- 10 Aug 2012, 20:18
- Forum: Programs, Software releases, and more.
- Topic: Correcting for perspective distortion
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8427
Re: Correcting for perspective distortion
- If I have a rectangular chessboard (instead of square) then just need to make sure that the aspect ratio is preserved, whatever the actual L and W dimensions. I believe that's correct. - If I have to compensate for aspect ratio, then would elongate the side that has the larger DPI (so as to avoid...