Consider instead setting this contraption up on a coffee table, so you can sit while doing all the picture taking. Worst part of this process, was standing at the side of my table. It converts the background to pure white, makes my fingers disappear, blackens and smoothens text for optimal OCR, etc.įinally, I bring all those tiny TIFF files into DT to (a) convert to PDF, (b) merge to single PDF, then, finally, OCR at 300 DPI resolution, which I set in DT preferences. Scan Tailor outputs the lot, magically, as tiny files for each page. Begin Scan Tailor at the content discovery phase, then do the remaining phases (set margins, and finally, the output iteration).Import these images into Scan Tailor Advanced, which runs on Mac and has many uses for everyday OCRing, too.Export from Lightroom as 300 DPI TIFF images, to a folder on the Desktop.In Lightroom, I do a batch conversion to B&W, change contrast, shadow etc.In Photos app, on my laptop, I then export all this stuff without modification (export as original).Launch vFlat for the initial cropping and de-skewing.This gives me time to use my hands to flatten each page. Take pictures of each page with the three-second timer mode, on iPhone.Better than I was able to do manually in Photoshop. The app not only cropped each page, but deskewed and, above all, de-warped the necessary pages with mind-blowing results. HOLY SMOKES! For a free app, this one takes the cake. I then tried a free app, much raved in a few online forums devoted to book scanning. This works, but is painstakingly time-consuming. I’m a bit of a perfectionist and tried, first, to manually de-warp with Photoshop. My issue, as expected, was in de-warping pages at the beginning and end of the book. I just completed my first couple of books, using a table clamp mount for an iPhone (I bought this one). I also had fingers crossed that a decades-old Open Source desktop app for the PC, called Scan Tailor, would become accessible for Mac users (that did happen, very recently). I’ve been putting this off after doing a lot of research on HOW to do this, because I don’t own a scanner, and didn’t want to mutilate the books themselves. One of my longer term projects, has been to digitize a bunch of out-of-print history and genealogy books on my shelves.
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