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posts/managing-scanned-books/ #292

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Managing Scanned Books :: Rohit Goswami — Reflections

Where I consider digitizing colored content. Background It so happened that I recently acquired a rather unique book which (somewhat oddly) had no corresponding digital variant 1. I’ve discussed how I modify books and papers for consumption on my Kobo Aura HD in the past, but this comes before that. Much of this is essentially a plug for Scantailor Advanced 2. Goals Starting with the initial output pdf files from a scanner’s “scan to me” function 3 the goal is to have all the bells and whistles of a well-done digital book:

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hazelnb commented 3 days ago

If you're interested in page numbering matching that in the text, qpdf supports custom page numbering (called page labels in the PDF standard) with the --set-page-labels option (see the relevant docs). This is also nice because you can properly number roman pages (i, ii etc) or even stranger schemes!