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• Z-Library to Let Users Share Physical Books

  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

• Is there a way to convert "photographed text" in to just "text" in a .pdf file?

  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: over 1 year ago

• Is anyone backing up/reploading Archive.org's scanned books to Libgen, etc.?

  Scantailor https://scantailor.org/ might be useful. Source: over 1 year ago

• Where do you BUY your ebooks from?

  Scantailor is a good open source option that has a lot of features centered towards this process. Source: over 1 year ago

• OCRmyPDF: Add an OCR text layer to scanned PDF file

  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

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