Scanning utilities

[XnTriq]

My version of Photoshop dates back to the turn of the century and doesn't come with this nifty feature Ty and René told me about.
So I went looking for a free alternative that would do both the de-skewing and the cropping of my scanned images for me automatcally.

Scan Tailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. It performs operations such as page splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, and others. You give it raw scans, and you get pages ready to be printed or assembled into a PDF or DJVU file. Scanning, optical character recognition, and assembling multi-page documents are out of scope of this project.

I was very impressed by the accuracy and speed of this open source tool when I did some tests with the samples provided by quantum.

Just like the multi-platform edition of XnView, Scan Tailor's UI is based on the Qt framework.

• SourceForge.net » Community Hub: Trust Scan Tailor to make your scanned pages spotless

For everyday tasks I'll keep using XnView's new function (Image » Rotate » Auto de-skew...), although it's not perfect yet.

Related: ScanKromsator is a freeware Windows program designed to refine the raw scanned images prior to DjVuing them.

[eL_PuSHeR]

Nice post. I do scanning a lot. I am going to test some of these utilities.

[Ty]

Thank you, XnTriq. Good stuff.