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Originally Posted by WV-Mike
Whew! This is all a bit overwhelming.
I looked at 4lex4 / scantailor-advanced but I cannot see how to use it.
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Yep, like others said...
To Download Scan Tailor Advanced
On the right side, you should see "Releases". That leads you to this page with a list of EXEs:
You might need to expand the spot where it says "Assets".
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If by "how to use it", you meant Tutorials... then yeah... there isn't too much good step-by-step explanations of Scan Tailor out there.
Back when I responded to anonlivros's fantastic:
I contacted him + showed him how to use it over screenshare—answering any questions he had live—but I never formalized the instructions/tips anywhere.
Since then, I explained a little more detail on the overall process:
but again, nothing specific on tricks I've learned inside of Scan Tailor Advanced. I'd just suggest poking around.
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Side Note: Perhaps one of these days, I'll finally write down and formalize this Scan Tailor stuff.
Recently, my time has been focusing less on MR... and more on helping LibreOffice.
Within the past 2 years, I've written nearly
1000 posts about all sorts of random LibreOffice questions!!!
Like the ultimate:
I've been refining all my Documentation/Technical Writing skills—just haven't turned them back towards MobileRead/Sigil/Calibre and all my favorite ebook tools... yet!
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Originally Posted by WV-Mike
FineReader is now by subscription only. It seem they all are now.
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Oh gods, what the hell have they done... I haven't visited their site in a few years.
I guess Finereader 16 jumped ship to that horrible yearly subscription fee nonsense.
Finereader 15 is then the last version that is standalone, so I'd recommend seeing if you can get a copy of that.
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Personally, I still use Finereader 12, which is the version I purchased at the time.
Finereader 13->14 introduced a few minor features that I didn't feel were huge enhancements.
Finereader 15 introduced a lot more PDF + PDF comparison stuff, so I was tempted to upgrade, just never got around to purchasing it.
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Originally Posted by WV-Mike
Too be clear this software preps the images prior to running OCR software.
Is that correct?
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Yes. Scan Tailor Advanced is just a COMPLETELY OPTIONAL program or step.
If your original scan/PDF is fine, then you can just feed that right into your OCR.
But if you did things like:
- Take photos of your pages using a camera.
- Have wobbly/crooked/tilted pages.
- Have 2 pages in 1 picture, with spine showing down the middle.
- Have 1.5 pages showing, with page's edges inside the photo.
- Dark speckles/spots/dust all around your pages.
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Scan Tailor can help clean that type of stuff up, so when you DO feed it into OCR, the OCR has a much easier time and can be more accurate.