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ScanTailor [1] also implements automatic dewarping and is overall great for scan postprocessing.

[1] http://scantailor.org/




I used it for about 1000 pages I photographed with a DSLR. The automatic dewarping rarely worked for me, so I ended up doing it manually.

It likely didn't help that many of the pages were typed carbon copies or hand-written. For the former I had to put another piece of paper behind the page to prevent the next page from bleeding through.

That said, I managed to get the job done, though it took a couple of weeks. Next is to capture the metadata (author, date written, ...). There were a lot of one page letters in the documents I copied.

Would love to try out another tool that could read from the ScanTailor project file to get the page segmentation or even the warping I did manually to improve on the result.




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