Based on our record, PDF Arranger should be more popular than ScanTailor. It has been mentiond 27 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
There's also https://scantailor.org/ (and a maintained fork at https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced ) which semi-automates unwarping and other corrective tasks in scanned books. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
Scantailor (https://scantailor.org) is the tool for self-scanned books that exist in images (png, jpg, etc). However, I usually use Irfanview with PDF plugin (https://irfanview.com - download both Irfanview and the Plugins from this home page) I have elsewhere in r/PDF shown how you can do batch splitting of two-page scans, clean up muddy pages (yellowed or browned) . In the Reddit search box, search for... Source: about 1 year ago
Scantailor https://scantailor.org/ might be useful. Source: about 1 year ago
Scantailor is a good open source option that has a lot of features centered towards this process. Source: over 1 year ago
I use OCRmyPDF on a regular basis to OCR journal articles my library sends me. I've found it works great on English but (with appropriate language packs installed) works poorly on Greek and Hebrew. It also makes no effort to understand the layout of pages (e.g., tables). The project is fantastic, though. I've often considered building a web frontend that cleans up PDFs and then OCRs them using OCRmyPDF. For... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
On Linux I like to use: https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger for such tasks. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago
I see some questions in the comments about document splitting and if you are using PDF for the export in scanning, this adds an extra step but may be valuable in the long run. For Linux users at least, there is "pdfarranger" which most distros have. You can install that, load the PDF and re-arrange pages, remove pages, etc. Source: 11 months ago
I like PDF Arranger for converting JPEGs to PDFs (open source on Windows) https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger. Source: about 1 year ago
I have always only been using PDF Arranger for manipulating PDF files (merging different files, arranging, adding, deleting pages) and I'm wondering if there really is no KDE equivalent for that application. Source: about 1 year ago
For merging, check out PDF Arranger. If you need to turn those emails or anything else into pdf, you can use any pdf print driver, and then put it all together with pdf arranger. For the stamps, LibreOffice Draw should do the trick. It won't be an automatic one click type of thing like I'm guessing it is in Adobe, but it's free. Source: over 1 year ago
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