What is ScanTailor Advanced?
ScanTailor Advanced is an open-source cross-platform graphical user interface application that allows enhancing and modifying scanned pages. It provides advanced controls for processing scanned pages from paper documents.
Some of the key features of ScanTailor Advanced include:
- Deskew - Straightens skewed pages from inaccurate scans
- Dewarping - Flattens curved and warped pages
- Split Pages - Automatically or manually splits pages
- Content Area Detection - Detects the actual page content, excluding margins
- Noise Removal - Cleans up speckles and other scanning artifacts
- Border Removal - Crops away dark scan edges and borders
- Output Color Modes - Saves pages in grayscale, black & white, or color modes
ScanTailor Advanced is an improved version of ScanTailor with additional features for enhanced scanning post-processing. It can handle large volumes of scanned pages and complex corrections with batch processing capabilities. The interface is intuitive allowing fine-tuned control over each step in document enhancement.
It runs on Windows, Mac and Linux allowing consistency across platforms. Scans can be exported to common formats like PDF and images. The batch processing features make ScanTailor Advanced suitable for processing digitization projects involving large numbers of scanned document pages.
PDF-XChange Editor, PDFedit, gscan2pdf, Infix PDF Editor, DocScan, YASW (Yet Another Scan Wizard), PDF Cutter, Deskew, Book Scan Wizard, JotNot Scanner, fileee, Docs.Zone are some alternatives to ScanTailor Advanced.