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1611mac · 12-04-2013, 12:12 PM

I have fast and perfect way of converting paper books in English to epub/mobi using a scanner with an ADF, Abbyy Finereader, Calibre (conversion), etc.

I now need to scan some foreign language books (Nepali, German, etc) and I want to save them as simple Non-Searchable pdfs. (basically scanned images in a pdf). I do not want to OCR them.

The problem I have is that when I use my ADF the page images are not always well centered and straight.

Any suggestions?

I have a Mac running both OSX and Windows (ABBYY FineReader). I can scan with any number of scan utilities (Apple Image Capture for example) or scan in FineReader. I know how to convert tiff to pdf, assemble pdfs, crop, etc in Acrobat Pro. As I said, I easily make OCR'd epubs and mobi's.

But what I can't figure out is how to simply "center and straighten" a page image somewhat automatically without having to manually rotate and "jog" hundreds of image pages in software.

I have a book scanner arriving today (Plustekk OpticBook 3800 RT) that will help yield consistent scans (image placement) but I really hate to have to scan hundreds of pages one by one (without an ADF).

Again, any suggestions?

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12-04-2013, 12:12 PM	#1
1611mac eWanderer Posts: 523 Karma: 1441998 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: NC, USA Device: iMac,iPad3,iPhone5-Kindle Fire,Touch,PaperWhite	Suggestions? Scan foreign language books & make non-searchable pdf I have fast and perfect way of converting paper books in English to epub/mobi using a scanner with an ADF, Abbyy Finereader, Calibre (conversion), etc. I now need to scan some foreign language books (Nepali, German, etc) and I want to save them as simple Non-Searchable pdfs. (basically scanned images in a pdf). I do not want to OCR them. The problem I have is that when I use my ADF the page images are not always well centered and straight. Any suggestions? I have a Mac running both OSX and Windows (ABBYY FineReader). I can scan with any number of scan utilities (Apple Image Capture for example) or scan in FineReader. I know how to convert tiff to pdf, assemble pdfs, crop, etc in Acrobat Pro. As I said, I easily make OCR'd epubs and mobi's. But what I can't figure out is how to simply "center and straighten" a page image somewhat automatically without having to manually rotate and "jog" hundreds of image pages in software. I have a book scanner arriving today (Plustekk OpticBook 3800 RT) that will help yield consistent scans (image placement) but I really hate to have to scan hundreds of pages one by one (without an ADF). Again, any suggestions? .