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unpaper is a post-processing tool for scanned sheets of paper, especially |
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for book pages that have been scanned from previously created photocopies. |
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The main purpose is to make scanned book pages better readable on screen |
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after conversion to PDF. Additionally, unpaper might be useful to enhance |
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the quality of scanned pages before performing optical character |
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recognition (OCR). unpaper tries to clean scanned images by removing dark |
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edges that appeared through scanning or copying on areas outside the actual |
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page content (e.g. dark areas between the left-hand-side and the |
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right-hand-side of a double-sided book-page scan). The program also tries |
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to detect disaligned centering and rotation of pages and will automatically |
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straighten each page by rotating it to the correct angle. This process is |
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called "deskewing". Note that the automatic processing will sometimes fail. |
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It is always a good idea to manually control the results of unpaper and adjust |
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the parameter settings according to the requirements of the input. Each |
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processing step can also be disabled individually for each sheet. Input and |
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output files can be in either .pbm, .pgm or .ppm format, thus generally in |
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.pnm format, as also used by the Linux scanning tools scanimage and scanadf. |
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Conversion to PDF can e.g. be achieved with the Linux tools pgm2tiff, tiffcp |
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and tiff2pdf. |
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unpaper is a post-processing tool for scanned sheets of paper, |
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especially for book pages that have been scanned from previously |
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created photocopies. The main purpose is to make scanned book pages |
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better readable on screen after conversion to PDF. Additionally, |
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unpaper might be useful to enhance the quality of scanned pages before |
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performing optical character recognition (OCR). unpaper tries to clean |
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scanned images by removing dark edges that appeared through scanning |
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or copying on areas outside the actual page content (e.g. dark areas |
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between the left-hand-side and the right-hand-side of a double-sided |
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book-page scan). The program also tries to detect disaligned |
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centering and rotation of pages and will automatically straighten |
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each page by rotating it to the correct angle. This process is called |
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"deskewing". Note that the automatic processing will sometimes fail. |
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It is always a good idea to manually control the results of unpaper |
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and adjust the parameter settings according to the requirements of |
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the input. Each processing step can also be disabled individually |
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for each sheet. Input and output files can be in either .pbm, .pgm or |
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.ppm format, thus generally in .pnm format, as also used by the Linux |
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scanning tools scanimage and scanadf. Conversion to PDF can e.g. be |
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achieved with the Linux tools pgm2tiff, tiffcp and tiff2pdf. |
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This is a fork of the original unpaper software by D.E. "Flameeyes" Petteno'. |
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This is a fork of the original unpaper software by D.E. "Flameeyes" |
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Petteno'. |