Centralizing text on the page in Abby Finereader

ukmaster · 03-13-2015, 05:54 PM

Hello. Hoping someone can help me with a little problem.

I have had some books scanned, converted to pdf and which I am now looking at in Abbyy Finereader. The quality is fine, but there's one snag - because the original books had the spines cut off, every original left-hand page has text appearing too far to the right on the page; every original right-hand page has text too far to the left.

So I need a function which allows me to centre the text on each page. I cannot work out how to do this on finereader, nor can I find any information about it on the internet. But I have seen professional scans done from (uncut) books which have text beautifully centered, and I can't imagine they're using more advanced software for this than finereader - any and all thoughts gratefully received!

grumbles · 03-30-2015, 07:09 PM

Take a look at Scan Tailor. This wonderful program will take your scans, split them if you scanned them two up, straighten them and then select the content and create a set of uniform pages. The usual output is single bit tiff files but there is an option for colour or grey scale output. You can then create the pdf directly from the images.

I usually use Scan Tailor to massage the scans before I run them through Finereader for OCR. It always works well for me.

03-13-2015, 05:54 PM	#1
ukmaster Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2015 Device: ibook	Centralizing text on the page in Abby Finereader Hello. Hoping someone can help me with a little problem. I have had some books scanned, converted to pdf and which I am now looking at in Abbyy Finereader. The quality is fine, but there's one snag - because the original books had the spines cut off, every original left-hand page has text appearing too far to the right on the page; every original right-hand page has text too far to the left. So I need a function which allows me to centre the text on each page. I cannot work out how to do this on finereader, nor can I find any information about it on the internet. But I have seen professional scans done from (uncut) books which have text beautifully centered, and I can't imagine they're using more advanced software for this than finereader - any and all thoughts gratefully received!

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03-30-2015, 07:09 PM	#2
grumbles Addict Posts: 238 Karma: 1500000 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Toronto Device: Pandigital Novel (Black), T-2 and 3, Nexus 7	Take a look at Scan Tailor. This wonderful program will take your scans, split them if you scanned them two up, straighten them and then select the content and create a set of uniform pages. The usual output is single bit tiff files but there is an option for colour or grey scale output. You can then create the pdf directly from the images. I usually use Scan Tailor to massage the scans before I run them through Finereader for OCR. It always works well for me.