Scan Tailor Advanced

[4lex4]

L.Willms,

New feature levels should provide means to upgrade existing work to the new features. It should not be to difficult to provide this with the new level.

The project is an opensource, I don't object to you doing it yourself if it should be so easy as you think. I haven't so much time to waste it on managing compatibility for project files between pre-release versions instead of making really useful things. Just use the appropriate version for old project files.

[seldor]

Hi
I really appreciate your work and thanks for providing a donate link which I just recently used
Maybe it would be a good compromise to just add a notice to the release notes whenever the format changes (or does it change with every version by definition? I guess not)
Keep up the good work and thanks a lot for your effort!

[babul]

Hey, donated recently as well. Keep up the good work!

[codeone]

Wonderful to see more updates to Scan Tailor -- thanks for your hard work!

Has anybody managed to get this to compile on OSX? I'm running into errors when I try to build it; these would probably be fixable if I spent an afternoon Googling, but I'd be extremely grateful if someone could just post an executable.

Have you been able to get a working version for High Sierra? The old version I had that worked on my old Mac with Mavericks doesn't work on the latest macOS. It would really help if a working Mac version could be made available because I have never tried compiling from original code and it looks like it would be too easy to mess things up and spend a lot of time running circles when you have no experience in such matters.

I know your inquiries re: macOS are a few months old, now, but I wanted to note I was able to compile in macOS High Sierra on an 2013 Macbook Pro. While I did get some warnings during the build process, nothing failed outright. The latest version of the source (as of 2018-07-23 -- 1.0.16) did appear to build successfully and install...I start ScanTailor Advanced from the Terminal and it just works as far as I can tell, though I haven't stress tested every possible feature. I do see errors in Terminal when running--I think these are related to stylesheets of the UI but they haven't crashed the app and I don't actually have a sense of what isn't being executed.

Still, if anyone would like me to add a HOWTO build Advanced for macOS, I could do that--just let me know if this is still needed and I can write up how I got the source compiled. It's also possible one or more of you did this on your own and with better results than me, so I'd also be happy to hear from people who got this working on their own, too.

I should add that I have had to test a lot of scripts and build a lot of different apps (or tried) from Github and other sources at work, so it's possible my environment was better prepped for this than Macs. Even though I think of my system as a messy bunch of tweaks at the Darwin-level, cleaner, newer Macs may be missing modules and dependencies I hacked into the OS to make some python script run 4 years ago.

Anyhow, thanks to 4lex4 for resurrecting this--the app has clearly been improved with your work. I'm particularly looking forward to any dewarping development--it's a lot better for me and a feature I really need. Here's hoping it continues to progress...very impressed with how far that feature has come.

[Benedictus]

Hi.

I went straight off a 2012/2013 incarnation of ST to ST Advanced and I'm impressed, specially about the speed.

I would like to do a couple of suggestions.

First is about consistency in the .scantailor file.

Back in the old ST versions I used to process my images (with ImageMagick or a Photoshop batch action) in order to convert them to BW or grayscale because the content selection was much more accurate over these draft files than over the full color ones. Then I relinked to the full color images, and this required converting every "auto" setting to "manual" so no work done over the "draft" files was altered when relinking to the color files.

I had this written in a batch file which did it automatically. However, in the new ST Advanced .scantailor files there is an inconsistency when writing the deskew settings. With content selection there is no problem because it's just a matter of changing

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contentDetectionMode="auto"

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contentDetectionMode="manual"

But with deskew, the settings are written under 2 different string formats, which are

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<params mode="auto" angle="whatever">

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<params angle="whatever" mode="auto">

Sure I can do a bit of regexp to detect either format, but it would be nice if the settings were written always with the same format.

A checkbox in the relinking dialog with a "Convert every setting to manual" option would also do it, but maybe that's asking too much

Second, I would find quite useful having a way of directly launching an editor to manipulate the file selected in ST. If a particular speckle is hindering content recognition, I have to search the file outside ST, edit it and make ST auto recognize the content again.

It would be nice to just have a keyboard shortcut in ST to open it in the editor, much like this setting in IrfanView:



Which opens the image in any of the 3 editors through Shift+1, 2 or 3.

And that's it.

Thanks again for ST Advanced.

[i8dcI32QWRfiwVj]

I know your inquiries re: macOS are a few months old, now, but I wanted to note I was able to compile in macOS High Sierra on an 2013 Macbook Pro. While I did get some warnings during the build process, nothing failed outright. The latest version of the source (as of 2018-07-23 -- 1.0.16) did appear to build successfully and install...I start ScanTailor Advanced from the Terminal and it just works as far as I can tell, though I haven't stress tested every possible feature. I do see errors in Terminal when running--I think these are related to stylesheets of the UI but they haven't crashed the app and I don't actually have a sense of what isn't being executed.

Still, if anyone would like me to add a HOWTO build Advanced for macOS, I could do that--just let me know if this is still needed and I can write up how I got the source compiled. It's also possible one or more of you did this on your own and with better results than me, so I'd also be happy to hear from people who got this working on their own, too.

Would be amazing to have a howto for building ST Advanced on macOS! Also, is there anything that stands in the way of packing the app you compiled into a .dng container and making it available? (Honest question! I don't know much about creating standalone apps on macOS.)

[i8dcI32QWRfiwVj]

I know your inquiries re: macOS are a few months old, now, but I wanted to note I was able to compile in macOS High Sierra on an 2013 Macbook Pro. While I did get some warnings during the build process, nothing failed outright. The latest version of the source (as of 2018-07-23 -- 1.0.16) did appear to build successfully and install...I start ScanTailor Advanced from the Terminal and it just works as far as I can tell, though I haven't stress tested every possible feature. I do see errors in Terminal when running--I think these are related to stylesheets of the UI but they haven't crashed the app and I don't actually have a sense of what isn't being executed.

Still, if anyone would like me to add a HOWTO build Advanced for macOS, I could do that--just let me know if this is still needed and I can write up how I got the source compiled. It's also possible one or more of you did this on your own and with better results than me, so I'd also be happy to hear from people who got this working on their own, too.

Would be amazing to have a howto for building ST Advanced on macOS! Also, is there anything that stands in the way of packing the app you compiled into a .dng container and making it available? (Honest question! I don't know much about creating standalone apps on macOS.)

Actually, have just managed to build ST Advanced on macOS 10.13.6 myself. Not that difficult with Macports. Here's how I did it:

1. Preparation:
   
   Installed all dependencies and tools (see list at https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-lib ... pendencies). In my case:
   

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   sudo port install boost cmake qt5 tiff libpng jpeg zlib

   Then cloned the ST Advanced github repository:
   

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   git clone https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced.git

2. Followed Linux build instructions (see https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-libs-build#linux):
   

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   cd ".../scantailor-advanced-1.x.x"
   mkdir build && cd build
   cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" --build ..
   make -j `nproc`
   

   Then:
   

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   sudo make install

Done!

Executable runs fine from Terminal. Found it impossible to package my build into an .app bundle, though, and would greatly appreciate some help here.

[reproman]

Used "ST Experimental" for several years--worked great--many thanks to Tulon

Now working with "ST Advanced"--so far I am impressed and enjoying and learning the features--thanks

[reproman]

Used "ST Experimental" for several years--worked great--many thanks to Tulon

Now working with "ST Advanced"--so far I am impressed and enjoying and learning the features--thanks

[artelse]

Need some help compiling for Linux Mint (Ubuntu 16).
I went through installing the load of libs and hopefully this worked out ok.
I now got stuck with an old version of Qt, 5.5.1 instead of the required 5.6:

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cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" --build .. -DBOOST_ROOT=/usr/local -DQt5_DIR=/opt/Qt/5.6

outputs:

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-DQt5_DIR=/opt/Qt/5.6
-- Boost version: 1.66.0
-- Found the following Boost libraries:
--   unit_test_framework
--   prg_exec_monitor
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:297 (find_package):
  Could not find a configuration file for package "Qt5Core" that is
  compatible with requested version "5.6".

  The following configuration files were considered but not accepted:

    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/Qt5Core/Qt5CoreConfig.cmake, version: 5.5.1
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/ae/Desktop/ST-advanced/scantailor-advanced/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".

As you can see I tried to remedy the error by adding the

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-DQt5_DIR=/opt/Qt/5.6

flag to point to my fresh install of Qt5.6. (I did this as it solved my Boost version problem before.)
Does anyone know how to have cmake find the right installation of Qt in /opt/Qt/5.6 or perhaps another way of updating Qt to 5.6?
Thanks!
p.s.: I did delete the CMakeCache.txt file