Quick Start
Try to press different buttons, drag all kinds of frames and lines. Thus you will understand their functions much better than when reading the explanations.
In short, there are six main stages of the process workflow in ScanTailor:
- FIX ORIENTATION - rotation of scans at 90, 180 or 270 degrees;
- SPLIT PAGES - division of two-page spreads into two pages / cut-off of the waste part of another page from single pages;
- DESKEW - rotation of scans at 0-90 degrees, making text lines horizontal;
- SELECT CONTENT - selection of the text area on the page, embracing it with special frame;
- MARGINS (ex PAGE LAYOUT) - setting the margins and matching page size with other pages;
- OUTPUT - creation of final page images. Optional here are binarization (converting color images into b/w), picture areas detection (for saving their colors), despeckling (noise removal), dewarping (straightening of page curvature).
It is suggested to work as follows: create a project, add files, if ST asks - fix DPI. If necessary, correct the page orientation. Then go directly to "Select Content" stage. Start batch processing. After that check errors. If there are many errors, it is better to view all pages consequentially. If not, use the Widest Page / Tallest Page sorting and check only the smallest and the largest ones. If the problem is caused by incorrect splitting, go back to the previous stage and fix the position of the cut line. Then return to "Select Content" stage and process that page again. When you are done selecting the content, go to the "Margins" stage and edit the page layout. Simply set the default sizes of page fields, align all content areas in the center and then change the alignment for individual non-standard pages. Now go to the "Output" stage, set the parameters there, apply them to all pages, and start batch processing again. Check the output images. If necessary, you can set other parameters for individual pages and re-output them.