Scan Tailor

[spamsickle]

Ha ha, I've just realized that the easiest way to implement "page fixe" in the quick and dirty style I often prefer is to write a script to slam the ScanTailor project file and then reload the project. Don't need to touch the code. We'll see how workable this turns out to be in practice...

[phaedrus]

Some good advice & suggestions in your post there Spamsickle, thanks. I'm interested if anyone else finds it best to uncheck the despeckle option? If, as I suspect, most do so then perhaps the default could be for off in the next version, might save a bit of grumbling here when I forget to untick it....

Cheers, P.

[spamsickle]

Tulon has said he's planning to make the despeckle option less aggressive, but I'll probably still uncheck it. I honestly haven't seen any "speckles" left by ScanTailor in the final product without it, and wouldn't mind if this was unchecked by default.

[Tulon]

Getting despeckling right is on the top of my priority list. I am going to make it adjustable, and the default will be much less aggressive.

[phaedrus]

Hi Tulon, sounds good, I've not tried photographing & processing any books with foxing so I guess that's where the despeckling option comes into its own? Like Spamsickle I've not yet run into a situation where it's ever been needed, I do have some older spotty books here (an otherwise lovely 1st edition of Wuthering Heights comes to mind) so will perhaps give that a go to see what happens.

Cheers, P.

[Tulon]

Despeckling is important for books printed on low quality paper. Most of the books printed in USSR are like that.

[laszlo]

Hi!

I have downloaded and compiled version 0.9.7.2. However I cant find Rob's work.
I took pictures from free hand, so didnt build a book scanner (yet), so I would like to
try out the dewarping feature.

Im compiling right now the git version. Can somebody write some pointers how can I activate the
dewarping feature? Is it included in 0.9.7.2?

Best regards,
Laszlo

UPDATE: I already compiled and tried out the git version. Still cant find it.
I looked at the git history, but only 3 commits were made after the RELEASE_0_9_7_2 tag.

Also I cant find Rob's commit in the history either.
Is it added?

Can I reproduce the same result what is shown on the news page?:
http://www.diybookscanner.org/news/?p=20

[laszlo]

Ok, I reread the whole thread one more time. Looks like Rob never committed his change. There is the published java code, and some promising pictures.

Rob: could you post a patch, I would like to try it out. And I would like to see it in scantailor sourcecode, even if its in a very rough stage.

[Tulon]

I was trying out some possible improvements before committing it, but I'll commit it in its current form today.

[laszlo]

Thank you Tulon your reply.
I pulled the source, but Im not able to compile it.
The boost/make_shared.hpp is missing from the source. Can you commit it too please?

Full build error:

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/home/tulion/Desktop/down/scantailor_tmp/git/scantailor-git/Undistort.cpp:30:33: error: boost/make_shared.hpp: Nincs ilyen fájl vagy könyvtár
/home/tulion/Desktop/down/scantailor_tmp/git/scantailor-git/Undistort.cpp: In function ‘void<unnamed>::approximateMargins(<unnamed>::ListOfLine&, boost::shared_array<double>&, boost::shared_array<double>&)’:
/home/tulion/Desktop/down/scantailor_tmp/git/scantailor-git/Undistort.cpp:225: error: ‘make_shared’ is not a member of ‘boost’
/home/tulion/Desktop/down/scantailor_tmp/git/scantailor-git/Undistort.cpp:225: error: expected primary-expression before ‘>’ token
/home/tulion/Desktop/down/scantailor_tmp/git/scantailor-git/Undistort.cpp:226: error: ‘make_shared’ is not a member of ‘boost’
/home/tulion/Desktop/down/scantailor_tmp/git/scantailor-git/Undistort.cpp:226: error: expected primary-expression before ‘>’ token
/home/tulion/Desktop/down/scantailor_tmp/git/scantailor-git/Undistort.cpp: In function ‘<unnamed>::ListOfLine<unnamed>::findLines(imageproc::BinaryImage&)’:
/home/tulion/Desktop/down/scantailor_tmp/git/scantailor-git/Undistort.cpp:261: error: ‘make_shared’ is not a member of ‘boost’
/home/tulion/Desktop/down/scantailor_tmp/git/scantailor-git/Undistort.cpp:261: error: expected primary-expression before ‘>’ token
/home/tulion/Desktop/down/scantailor_tmp/git/scantailor-git/Undistort.cpp:261: error: expected primary-expression before ‘)’ token
/home/tulion/Desktop/down/scantailor_tmp/git/scantailor-git/Undistort.cpp: In function ‘<unnamed>::RefcountedUndistortLine<unnamed>::findLine(imageproc::BinaryImage&)’:
/home/tulion/Desktop/down/scantailor_tmp/git/scantailor-git/Undistort.cpp:315: error: ‘make_shared’ is not a member of ‘boost’
/home/tulion/Desktop/down/scantailor_tmp/git/scantailor-git/Undistort.cpp:315: error: expected primary-expression before ‘>’ token
/home/tulion/Desktop/down/scantailor_tmp/git/scantailor-git/Undistort.cpp:315: error: expected primary-expression before ‘)’ token
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/scantailor.dir/Undistort.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/scantailor.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2