On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:58:24 +0100 Paul Smith wrote: > Subject: Asking for advice regarding scanning a textbook > To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: > <6ade6f6c0707150758h4860c228ud90f4517be5927fe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Dear All, > > I need to scan a textbook, black and white. Could someone please > advice me about the settings (resolution, brightness, etc.) in order > to get a small pdf file? > > Thanks in advance, > > Paul There's a package called unpaper that can do all sorts of cleanup on scanned images: splitting a 2-page (open-book) image into 2 files, getting rid of borders, deskewing, and so forth. It might be useful for your application, though it takes a bit of experimentation to get the option values right. I briefly mentioned it on FDP a few weeks back: http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/78-.html The upstream website is: http://unpaper.berlios.de/ -- Chris Tyler http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com
