Holding books open while scanning

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ScanTailor

- Load the images into a program called scantailor, its an old program but very solid, free and open source. It loads all the TIFs for post processing, it is able to detect and separate pages, rotate and deskew them, detect the content of the page, and cleans up the scan very nicely. It even detects what part of the content is text and what are images, meaning your images will still be shown in RGB, whereas text will be thresholded into clean black and white. In my tests it even works with non rectangle images pretty well. It also removes specs and dirt, does have some dewarping capability and does it all pretty automatic in my experience. There is a bit of a learning curve on using it though and the output will still be a series of TIF images.

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Affinity Photo

- Merging the TIFs into one searchable pdf I use the CZUR software again (though you could use photoshop and a free OCR software like OCRmyPDF to do this too). If you go for CZUR however, they only accept JPEGs. I use Affinity Photo to convert it, they have a nice batch processor for this type of thing (although I would suggest disabling parallel processing cause it gave some weird artifacts in my output). After that you can load them back into CZUR and export them as a searchable pdf that is very nicely sized for consumption on e-readers.

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