4lex4/scantailor-advanced
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ScanTailor Advanced is the version that merges the features of the ScanTailor Featured and ScanTailor Enhanced versions, brings new ones and fixes.
13 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 0 stories, 13 comments · first 2019-07-29 · latest 2026-03-29
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…Advanced [3]. [1]: https://scantailor.org/ [2]: https://github.com/scantailor/scantailor [3]: https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced
comment by fn-mote · 2026-03-29 · in Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor -
Btw for better results (and manual correction) ScanTailor is a handy tool. https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced 1DollarScan is the best option available currently in US so with bookfinder.com you can find/send directly to them and…
comment by freefaler · 2024-09-19 · in Remote Book Scanning with 1DollarScan and Optimizing Scanned PDFs -
There's also https://scantailor.org/ (and a maintained fork at https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced ) which semi-automates unwarping and other corrective tasks in scanned books.
comment by tomodachi94 · 2023-04-09 · in Z-Library to let users share physical books -
…are). (I use the shell command mmv for convenient renaming.) Import this folder into ScanTailor ( https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced/releases ), save the project, and run it through all 6 stages. Stage 1 (Fix Orientation): Use…
comment by generationP · 2022-08-21 · in LibGen's Bloat Problem -
…to my laptop and then run a bash for-loop of the tesseract CLI over the resultant files. I use https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced to deskew the images and generate the PDF. It isn't perfect but my purposes are more around…
comment by hkt · 2021-07-19 · in Tesseract OCR -
This has the latest developments, but is also seemingly unmaintained for over a year: https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced Scan Tailor forum: https://forum.diybookscanner.org/viewforum.php?f=21
comment by buovjaga · 2021-07-19 · in Tesseract OCR -
…which is usually done anyway to reduce the file size (e.g. it's part of the default operation of https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced ). Arguably the same is true for yellow dots if one is leaking scanned printouts, but identifying…
comment by generationP · 2021-06-24 · in List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots -
…It has been a while since I did any serious scanning so I can't remember which version I used. https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced https://github.com/trufanov-nok/scantailor-universal
comment by jccalhoun · 2021-06-02 · in DIY Book Scanner -
There are a couple folks that forked scantailor. I'm not sure the status of those. Here are a couple: https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced https://github.com/trufanov-nok/scantailor-universal
comment by jccalhoun · 2021-06-02 · in DIY Book Scanner -
…to pdf, it's pretty powerful. I didn't have a proper setup, but my results still came out decently. https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced
comment by Topgamer7 · 2021-06-01 · in DIY Book Scanner -
…about a decade with zero issues. 2. Use xsane for scanning 3. (Optional) Use scantailor-advanced (https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced) for any cleanup 4. (Optional) Use tesseract for any ocr (does not work on handwritten notes,…
comment by kxyvr · 2020-09-28 · in How to digitize your lab notebooks -
…seems to have problems with warped pages. After a fair amount of searching I found ScanTailor: https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced#scan-tailor-adv... which seems to have the capability of dealing with warped page images. I haven't…
comment by inetsee · 2020-05-22 · in Ask HN: OCR framework for extracting formatted text? -
…but since you mentioned deskewing, I clean up my scanned documents using ScanTailor Advanced: https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced I find the autodeskewing algorithm to work well, but it allows hand adjustment as well, which I…
comment by kxyvr · 2019-07-29 · in OpenPDF 1.3.0