select contents problems

[jinjin12]

i've tested a couple of page and for some pages, select content works well but for others, it only selecte a couple of paragraphs and omits alot of other information on the page. it's ok for a couple of pages cause i can do it myself but with hundreds of pages, this is a big problem. how can i solve it? is the problem my input? is it due to the lack of proper lighting on the pages?

[Tulon]

is the problem my input?

I can't tell till I've seen it. Also tell which input DPI are you specifying.

[Anonymous1]

Content selection is also a big issue for me, but only on really old books with tons of marks and smudges in the margins. I tried playing with it, and I think the biggest problem with content selection is finding the text blocks. The algorithm that's currently used finds a lot of false-positives (like dots next to the content areas), but I'm not the one to fix it.

Here's a research paper on SWT (Stroke Width Transform), which would work perfectly for detecting text quickly: http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cac ... JZ6g&pli=1

[seasalt]

hello - I love scantailor - thankyou Tulon and others for such great work!!
I have basic questions not found answer in user guide or on forum search
1) content box - is the logic I include header and footer / page number ? or strictly "content block"?
2) if I select content block (no headers hooters), will I still get this header/footer content in my output Tiff or does it remove it?
3) if I select content block, the next option, page layout, is the correct logic, I suppose to set the outer/hard margin to exact size of my book?

thankyou for any help!
cheers

[Tulon]

1) content box - is the logic I include header and footer / page number ? or strictly "content block"?

Everything you want to preserve is meant to be there.

2) if I select content block (no headers hooters), will I still get this header/footer content in my output Tiff or does it remove it?

Margins are cleared in all output modes except "Color / Grayscale" with "White margins" unchecked.

3) if I select content block, the next option, page layout, is the correct logic, I suppose to set the outer/hard margin to exact size of my book?

It doesn't make sense for an e-book to have margins as large as in the original. You would be wasting screen space that way. Just choose the margins you are comfortable with.

[seasalt]

thankyou tulon

when I am using select contents - it appears to be "assessing / rendering" 1 page at a time
is there a way ST can "assess/render" all, then I use W to validate each page before any processing executed?