Feature Comparison for the Various Flavors of Scan Tailor
Posted: 27 Apr 2018, 04:03
Dear fellow Scan Tailor lovers,
It is so wonderful that there is still continued development for this excellent and invaluable piece of software! The only thing is that I am completely confused as to which flavor to use now. There seems to be active development by two of the flavors (Advanced and Universal), and so if anyone can shed some light into how to choose between the two, I'd be most grateful.
I was thinking that, if it doesn't exist already, we could work together to create a feature comparison table to make the choice a bit easier or, at the very least, to serve as a reference.
The list below is bound to have errors, but it is a starting point. Ideally, this could be a Markdown table in a GitHub wiki where anyone could update, but I wasn't sure which repo would be best to contribute to. Since this forum seems to be where all the paths cross, I thought that I'd start the conversation here. I tried to figure out some of the feature differences the best I could, citing them where possible.
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It is so wonderful that there is still continued development for this excellent and invaluable piece of software! The only thing is that I am completely confused as to which flavor to use now. There seems to be active development by two of the flavors (Advanced and Universal), and so if anyone can shed some light into how to choose between the two, I'd be most grateful.
I was thinking that, if it doesn't exist already, we could work together to create a feature comparison table to make the choice a bit easier or, at the very least, to serve as a reference.
The list below is bound to have errors, but it is a starting point. Ideally, this could be a Markdown table in a GitHub wiki where anyone could update, but I wasn't sure which repo would be best to contribute to. Since this forum seems to be where all the paths cross, I thought that I'd start the conversation here. I tried to figure out some of the feature differences the best I could, citing them where possible.
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- Scan Tailor
- Last updated: 2016
- Maintainer: Joseph Artsimovich (Tulon) --> Nate Craun (ncraun)
- Releases: Windows 32-bit, Windows 64-bit, source code
- Code: https://github.com/scantailor/scantailor
- Notes:
- the original
- relies on DPI
- Scan Tailor Plus
- Last updated: 2012
- Releases: Windows 32-bit, source code
- Code: https://sourceforge.net/projects/scanta ... evel/plus/
- Scan Tailor Featured
- Last updated: 2013
- Releases: Windows 32-bit, source code
- Code: https://sourceforge.net/projects/scanta ... /featured/
- Scan Tailor for OSX
- Last updated: 2013
- Releases: MacOS
- Code: https://code.google.com/archive/p/scantailor-osx/
- Notes:
- seems to be an outdated listing of builds for OSX, but otherwise no real new features or bug fixes
- includes builds for Scan Tailor, Scan Tailor Enhanced, and Scan Tailor Featured [cite]
- abandoned
- Scan Tailor Enhanced
- Last updated: 2014
- Releases: Windows 32-bit, source code
- Code: https://sourceforge.net/projects/scanta ... /enhanced/
- Notes:
- Scan Tailor Experimental
- Last updated: 2017
- Maintainer: Joseph Artsimovich (Tulon)
- Releases: Windows 32-bit, Windows 64-bit, source code
- Code: https://github.com/Tulon/scantailor
- Notes:
- moved dewarping to "Deskew" stage [cite]
- got rid of DPIs altogether [cite]
- adds a "Match Size by Scaling" feature [cite]
- compileable on OSX (potential Qt 5 issues) [cite]
- command-line version broken? [cite]
- NOTE: "Scan Tailor experimental doesn't output 96 DPI images. It's just what your software shows when DPI information is missing. Usually what you get is input DPI times the resolution enhancement factor." [cite]
- Scan Tailor Advanced
- Last updated: 2018
- Maintainer: (4lex4)
- Releases: Windows 32-bit, Windows XP 32-bit, Windows 64-bit, source code
- Code: https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced
- Notes:
- merges the features of Scan Tailor Featured and Scan Tailor Enhanced [cite]
- there is an EXTENSIVE comparison of features on the GitHub Repo's README
- the README also lists features included from Scan Tailor Advanced
- full control over settings on output (disabling smoothing, etc.) [cite]
- adaptive binarization [cite]
- dark/light color schemes [cite]
- multi-threaded batch processing [cite]
- ability to split mixed output to foreground and background layers [cite]
- adds a new "Auto adjusting content area" feature [cite]
- Scan Tailor Universal
- Last updated: 2018
- Maintainer: Alexander Trufanov (trufanov-nok)
- Releases: MacOS, Linux 64-bit, Linux AMD 64-bit, source code
- Code: https://github.com/trufanov-nok/scantailor
- Notes: