Scan Tailor "Experimental"

[KevClifford]

Virustotal.com doesn't find Panda having an issue with the installation exe file. I'd already ran Panda on scantailor-cli.exe and it didn't throw anything up.
But that's not what I explained was happening. Panda threw a wobbly when I actually execute that file (when I try and install the program). If I disable Panda and install the program, Panda then also throws a wobbly after I turn it back on and it then quarantines the program exe file (not the installation exe file). Panda Free version on Win 7.

[Tulon]

Does Panda give any additional information on why it quarantines that file?

[whitepage]

Hi Tulon,

A thousand thanks for the amazing software.
I've shown my partner how to fix a dirty scan she found somewhere, and she was blown away.

Scan Tailor experimental doesn't output 96 DPI images. It's just what your software shows when DPI information is missing

I get that.
But could we please have an advanced setting under Tools / Settings so we can specify a dpi in the output file?
As you know Acrobat assumes 96dpi, and it refuses to OCR because it thinks the images are "too large" (in inches).

For this reason it seems like a lot of people are having to put the dpi back in using various batch tools.
If there was a simple advanced setting that would save us a lot of time.
I know you're reluctant to add dpi, so the standard could remain the same, and users only set the dpi in the Tools/Settings menu if they know what they're doing. You can even have a warning there:
"only set this if you know what you're doing", or
"warning: setting this does not affect image pixel output, just dpi metadata and therefore physical size".

Thank you in advance for considering it.

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[KevClifford]

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Panda just reports it as being a virus.

[Tulon]

But could we please have an advanced setting under Tools / Settings so we can specify a dpi in the output file?

I'll think about it.

Panda just reports it as being a virus.

I see. That's not very helpful. I am going to assume it's a false positive then.

[whitepage]

But could we please have an advanced setting under Tools / Settings so we can specify a dpi in the output file?

I'll think about it.

Thank you for considering it.

It's just that one small box in Scan Tailor could save messing with far more complex dialogs in other programs down the line.

For instance here is how you batch-change the dpi in IrfanView:

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In Photoshop, first we have to create an action:

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Then apply it:

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[dtic]

@whitepage, worth mentioning that you can use the command line tool GraphicsMagick to quickly change the image dpi value like this

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gm.exe convert "C:\this file\file.tif" -density 600x600 "C:\this file\file.tif"

So you can try to make a small script that applies that command on all files that are dropped on the script.

[diyfan]

First of all, I would like to congratulate you for such a nice software.

I am using Debian GNU/Linux with latest scantailor GIT experimental builds.
OpenGL acceleration works, OpenCL is not detected.

"Accelerate image processing with OpenCL" is greyed.
In previous versions of scantailor experimental, it used to work with free OpenGL drivers.

I am using an nvidia card with Nouveau free software driver, name "Nouveau".
It does support OpenCL.

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uname -a
Linux sony-vaio 4.4.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.4.2-3 (2016-02-21) x86_64 GNU/Linux

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dpkg-query -W ocl-icd*
ocl-icd-dev	2.2.8-1
ocl-icd-libopencl1:amd64	2.2.8-1
ocl-icd-opencl-dev:amd64	2.2.8-1

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dpk-query -W opencl-headers
opencl-headers	2.0~svn32091-2

When using this testing code:

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./print-devices
platform 0: vendor 'Mesa'
curl https://codeload.github.com/hpc12/tools/tar.gz/master | tar xvfz -
cd tools-master/
make
./print-devices
./print-devices
platform 0: vendor 'Mesa'
  device 0: 'NVA8'

Vendor is 'Mesa' and device is NVA8.

[Tulon]

According to https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix/, Nouveau doesn't support OpenCL.

If it worked with a CPU-based OpenCL implementation, it's possible that implementation doesn't support all the features required by Scan Tailor. Older versions of Scan Tailor didn't check whether all the required features are supported.

[diyfan]

You are completely right, my bad.
So I cannot use OpenCL.

Thanks for your work Tulon!