Portable Software Suite...?

[loyukfai]

Trying to scan some books. Did a first try but needs both hardware and software improvements. The hardware improvements should be relatively simple but not so sure about the software.

The problem is that, I need a portable suite which I can run on another's Windows-based PC which is (much) faster than mine. ScanTailor got one (http://portableapps.com/node/27566) but there seems to be no binding utilities meets my needs...?

Any suggestion and comments?

Thanks in advance!

Edit:

Here is my way of doing it with Ubuntu...

1. Setup your Ubuntu environment. For me, I wrote the ISO to a CD-RW disc and used it to install Ubuntu on an external drive.

2. Launch Ubuntu Software Center and install the followings...

a. GIMP (for measuring pixels)
b. ScanTailor
c. GPRename (for renaming files)
d. ruby (for PDFBeads)
e. rubygems (for PDFBeads)
f. imagemagick (for PDFBeads)
g. graphicsmagick (for PDFBeads)
h. libmagickcore-dev (for PDFBeads)
i. libmagickwand-dev (for PDFBeads)
j. Phatch PHoto bATCH Processor (for rotating images before handling over to ScanTailor)

3. Launch terminal, run the following commands...

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sudo gem install rmagick
sudo gem install pdfbeads
sudo gem install hpricot


4. Download jbig2 from http://code.google.com/p/pdfrecompressor/downloads/list
Note: This one doesn't run on 64-bit platform. Had to compile my own.

5. Create a "bin" directory under the home directory, then run...

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cp /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/pdfbeads ./bin
cp ./Downloads/jbig2 ./bin
cd ./bin
chmod ugo+x *

6. Done.

[strider1551]

I need a portable suite which I can run on another's Windows-based PC which is (much) faster than mine. ScanTailor got one (http://portableapps.com/node/27566) but there seems to be no binding utilities meets my needs...?

If you're making Djvu files, djvubind will probably work in Windows (it does in XP, and I expect it would in their more recent versions). Probably not the most intuitive thing to use unless you have a Linux background... been thinking about making a gui, but the muse of programming hasn't been with me lately.

For the PDF stuff I'll let the others chime in, since that's not my area.

[loyukfai]

Thanks. I should have mentioned PDF is my target.

Commandline should be fine with me.

Cheers.

[loyukfai]

As suggeted by @snaguy over here (viewtopic.php?p=10594#p10594), I'm trying to build a Live USB drive to run ScanTailor and PDFBeads.

Installing ScanTailor is a piece of cake since it's available in the Ubuntu archive.

Also found GPRename which should handle the renaming task.

However, I have problems getting PDFBeads to work...

After installing Ruby and RubyGems through Software Center, I installed PDFBeads ("sudo gem install pdfbeads"), then proceeded to install the below through Software Center...

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imagemagick
graphicsmagick
libmagickcore-dev
libmagickwand-dev

Then run "sudo gem install rmagick" and ran into many of such errors...

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No definition for TextureFill_initialize
No definition for TextureFill_fill
No definition for ImageMagickError_initialize
No definition for Enum_initialize
No definition for Enum_to_s
No definition for Enum_to_i
No definition for Enum_spaceship
No definition for Enum_case_eq


And running PDFBeads just give me a 0-byte output...

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ubuntu@ubuntu:/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/pdfbeads-1.0.3/lib$ ruby -rubygems ./pdfbeads.rb /home/ubuntu/Desktop/PDFBeads/out/* > /home/ubuntu/Desktop/123.pdf


Any idea...?

P.S. Besides, how to add pdfbeads to path so that no need to run a long commandline everytime?

Thanks in advance!

[snaguy]

I have no experience with ruby or PDFBeads, I did not know they existed before reading your thread!

You may want to look into djvubind since moving to ubuntu live usb.

[loyukfai]

Haha...

I'm wanting PDF outputs because of my reader setup.

Thanks for the reply still!

Cheers.

[snaguy]

you can convert djvu to pdf

[loyukfai]

I'm feeling that I've messed up the forums by asking questions all over the place...

Anyway, installed djvubind but when it's run, it says...

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/djvubind", line 35, in <module>
    import djvubind.encode
ImportError: No module named djvubind.encode


Any idea...?

And what do you recommend for converting djvu to PDF?

[loyukfai]

Hoorah! Managed to get PDFBeads working at last...

Instead of the convoluted command mentioned above, just run...

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/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/pdfbeads

But how to find and install a jbig2 binary which PDFBeads can use...?

P.S. Thanks to you all! And also Google Translate, BTW.

http://translate.google.com/translate?j ... beads.html

[strider1551]

Anyway, installed djvubind but when it's run, it says...
...
Any idea...?

Oh my... If you could please issue a bug on my issue tracker (https://code.google.com/p/djvubind/issues/list), that will make it easier to converse back and forth so I can figure out what happened, without mucking up the forums here. Definitely start with what distro you're on, how you installed it, and how you are running it.

And what do you recommend for converting djvu to PDF?

The djvulibre toolset includes ddjvu. A simple usage example would be "ddjvu -format=pdf book.djvu book.pdf".