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x9kf2r · 01-16-2015, 02:15 PM

Thanks, and sorry for the slow reply (dissertation deadline eclipsed the rest of life for a moment). Once I got the dependency issues cleared away, the results are impressive when it works. Pages come out looking like what one finds on Google Books or on Amazon in keeping with the examples posted above. Size tends to be reduced to 25% or less of original. It works best with double or single page books that have been scanned via copier. Overall, very nice!

A few things I've noticed:
* Autorotate (or leaving the rotate tag off) seems to have a mind of its own, rotating unnecessarily or too much or too little.
* PDFs that contain any OCR already frequently cause problems. The temp folder fills with image fragments (e.g., thousands of close-ups of copier debris or blurry negatives of pages). I usually kill the process after an hour or so, so I'm not sure what comes out the other end.
* A couple random PDFs were reassembled out of order. Not sure what happened; glad I caught it though.
* ScanTailor hammers my computer (3 year i3 with 4 GB ram).
* Grayscale or color images are converted to b/w.

Thanks again. Great to have this script.

01-16-2015, 02:15 PM	#8
x9kf2r Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 320 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Nook STR	Thanks, and sorry for the slow reply (dissertation deadline eclipsed the rest of life for a moment). Once I got the dependency issues cleared away, the results are impressive when it works. Pages come out looking like what one finds on Google Books or on Amazon in keeping with the examples posted above. Size tends to be reduced to 25% or less of original. It works best with double or single page books that have been scanned via copier. Overall, very nice! A few things I've noticed: * Autorotate (or leaving the rotate tag off) seems to have a mind of its own, rotating unnecessarily or too much or too little. * PDFs that contain any OCR already frequently cause problems. The temp folder fills with image fragments (e.g., thousands of close-ups of copier debris or blurry negatives of pages). I usually kill the process after an hour or so, so I'm not sure what comes out the other end. * A couple random PDFs were reassembled out of order. Not sure what happened; glad I caught it though. * ScanTailor hammers my computer (3 year i3 with 4 GB ram). * Grayscale or color images are converted to b/w. Thanks again. Great to have this script.