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Yeah, I was using the google books version. If your scans are marginal, you might have some success with ScanTailor (especially Scan Tailor Advanced, which is muticore, and thus faster.) I believe there is a homebrew recipe for it (scantailor-advanced)
Im using scantailor-cli and try to process some image files, but theres no output. I installed the scantailor package. There seems to be some activity, but no output in the "out" folder. With the GUI it works flawlessly.
osboxes@osboxes:/Downloads/a/ryon$ docker run -it -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY scantailoraaa
i am trying to modify the docker and use these command but the results have less elements and is not working i added the command (it has less files rather than needed)
It is not entirely automated. You use scantailor.exe GUI app to create a "project file" that contains configuration, then launch scantailor-cui.exe CUI that loads the file to do batch processing. (processing can be completed in GUI too)
To silently install 4lex4 ScanTailor Advanced 2019.8.16 follow theese simple steps.
To silently install 4lex4 ScanTailor Advanced 2019.8.16 follow theese simple steps.
It amazes me what man can come up with. This is the best scanner of its type on the market, I also have a S1500 and the SV600 software works well with it. I use it on a Mac book pro with parallel and windows 7. The software is a little stronger on the windows side.
When it comes to mac version coming "soon", do you have any more clarifications from fujitsu. Another question I had, if I did pick up the windows only SV600, is it possible that this will be the same unit used for mac and any possibilities of getting the mac software without purchasing the mac version, my hope is that they don't make another SKU like the S1500 M vs "non-M"
The basic idea for this method is very simple. Have a camera set up on a tripod facing down on a book. Take a picture, turn the page...and repeat.
Basic requirements:
Digital Camera - It doesn't need to have too many fancy features, but it does have to have some way of triggering it remotely. My camera has 6 megapixels and the images turned out pretty readable (I wouldn't recommend any lower than 6, though it never hurts to try).
Tripod - A basic tripod with adjustable legs.
Remote control / Cable release - You need some way of firing the camera without touching it. This is important because of two reasons. Firstly, you don't want shaky images. Second, and more importantly, you're going to want to move as little as possible between flipping the pages and firing the camera. You will to be making the same motion hundreds of times, and having to get up and fire your camera, or reach in awkward positions will definitely wear you out. If you don't have a remote control or shutter release cable, there are a bunch of instructables showing you how to make your own =).
A heavy weight - The tripod is going to be in an awkward position and will need extra support on the back leg to stop it from falling over.
Lighting - At least two lights are recommended. You also may need something to diffuse the lighting, like wax paper.
A PC - Preferably windows based (software will be described below).
Software:
These programs are required if you want to turn your book into an Adobe PDF file for easy reading.
Snapter - This is an EXTREMELY useful program I was very lucky to find. It makes cropping all of your images into separate pages very easy, and it's pretty cheap ($50 - about half the price of the average textbook). Sorry Linux and Mac people, this program only works on windows. If you don't want to use snapter, there are programs that can do batch processing, but these require little bit more effort.
Bullzip - This free program lets you compile all your pictures into a PDF file. Bullzip is also windows only but there are plenty of alternatives for Linux and Mac.
(sorry for possible bad english, I am not english speaker)
This is an interesting article about an very interesting and very useful activity that is not enough done for people.
You can scanner many books as books friends to lend you or books you to take from public library, and this manner you extend your private library for no cost.
For now I have scanned and "ebooking" over 300 books with this method , and growing.
I do some steps a little bit different respect this tutorial. For me a very important detail with no mention in article is an software or hardware intervalomenter wich fire camera each X seconds. I work with software intervalometer included at Eos Utility software and computer connected to canon 400D. Minimun time between photos for this software is 5 seconds... I tried less time with other procedeures , but camera begin to fail some photos with less seconds.
At this rate you have photographied 24 pages a minute. An 240 page book, then, need only 10 minutes to be photographied completely.
I think that book have to be in a table, with the tripod over the table too , and you confortably seated with book in front of you. Its a mechanical task turning pages each 5 seconds or less (some seconds spare at this rate) , but is not tiring task and you can listen music or podcasts while you do it. Its very useful too buy two metal clamps as this: At any hardware store sell you very cheap. You will utilize this pieces for immobilize the book , wich is placed with inferior pages side coinciding with table side nearest you. Then you fix open book with the two clamps , one for first book page (cover book) and other for last page.
For image proccess I utilize two programs: Advanced Batch Converter for turning 180º each photo (with windows can be done same with two 90 º turns) and Image Cutter for cut photos into two pages and eliminates image parts around book pages.
Finally for transform all pages in an ebook I utilize Image to Pdf v2.1.0
Today I discovered a pretty awesome looking piece of scanning software called scantailor. It apparently runs great on Windows and Linux, and the instructions say you can install it on macOS with Macport. For those of us that use Brew, the instructions were somewhat broken. Keep reading to see how I installed scantailor under macOS High Sierra
and start from there ./scantailor, the application will start.
If you want to make it executable by clicking the application, you could modify the Package Contents. (I took some files from the memorytest application Rember and modified Info.plist)
Moving scantailor from the original directory to Contents\MacOS\.
Adding a Info.plist file
Adding a Pkginfo file
Adding a English.lproj directory, containing InfoPlist.strings and MainMenu.nib
Adding a Resources directory, containging an icon for scantailor: scantailor.icns
This seems to work for making a relocatable scantailor.app. Making a universal build from here is a matter of taking an intel and a ppc and merging them appropriately.
I've found that making a universal app directly via cmake to not work, even the better mac-supporting 2.6. Any insights appreciated!
To get CMake to do all the packaging and linking above (to take better advantage of cmake 2.6), we need to re-arrange the CMAke properties a bit across all the ports, and this is a somewhat larger undertaking.
Obwohl die beiden Module ganz passable Ergebnisse liefern, lassen die Texterkennungsraten durch den Einsatz der Bildbearbeitungssoftware Scantailor noch weiter steigern. Das Programm ist für Linux (apt-get install scantailor) und Windows erhältlich, wobei die Windowsversion im Release etwas hinterherhinkt. Der Vorteil an Scantailor ist, dass es alle wichtigen Funktionen des Preprozessing in schnell handhabbarer Weise anbietet. So lassen sich Dokumente oft in wenigen Sekunden bearbeiten. Hier erkläre ich die bedeutenden Schritte zur Vorbereitung von Bilddateien mit Scantailor ein ausführlicheres (englisches) Tutorial der Software findet man hier.
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