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Old 02-09-2009, 05:32 PM   #1
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Expert help required : Cleaning bad pdf scans

Hi guys,

well here's my first post, i have looked a bit for my answer but couldn't find anything. So here is my problem :



I have about 20 books of 100 pages like these, all in pdf format. Needless to say i need to clean them up.

Here is what i need to do :

1:Extract all pdf to images. (what format is best? tiff?)
2: Remove the black borders (crop them)
3: Divide the images in half so only one page shows per pdf page.
4: Center all the pages and make them viewable on a prs-505.

I'm guessing i will have to extract the images from the pdfs
and work with those, but doing one by one for each 200+ pages book seems crazy. Is there an easy way of doing this by batch and what software would i need, free or not, to extract, crop, divide and resize.


Any help is appreciated thanks!

Edit: Software tested : adobe acrobat, readiris, photoshop, amber pdf converter and some more... couldn t find any way to batch thing up atleast a bit... will probably need to do 4 or so steps but hopefully not manually crop over 1000 pages... .

Last edited by Student1; 02-09-2009 at 05:51 PM. Reason: adding information
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