Bug#697968: gscan2pdf: Provide useful automatic deskewing option. ('unpaper' fails.)

2013-01-17 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
> I tried it on a skewed 20 page PDF, (first I ran 'pdftoppm'). The > output was perfectly deskewed. One kvetch, its default background > (fill-in) color is black, (I used '-b FF' for white), but maybe > there's some easy kludge around that. There's nothing stopping you using this with gscan

Bug#697968: gscan2pdf: Provide useful automatic deskewing option. ('unpaper' fails.)

2013-01-15 Thread A. Costa
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:32:21 +0100 Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: > Wouldn't it be better to report bugs against unpaper with specific > cases where deskew didn't work? It sure would, but... Users like me don't know where this bug lives; some of us use 'unpaper' only when 'gscan2pdf' calls it. 'man

Bug#697968: gscan2pdf: Provide useful automatic deskewing option. ('unpaper' fails.)

2013-01-15 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
Wouldn't it be better to report bugs against unpaper with specific cases where deskew didn't work? A quick search didn't come up with any other simple deskewing tools: gimp has a plug-in: http://registry.gimp.org/node/2958 leptonica has a deskew module, but I don't think any executables: http://

Bug#697968: gscan2pdf: Provide useful automatic deskewing option. ('unpaper' fails.)

2013-01-12 Thread A. Costa
Package: gscan2pdf Version: 1.0.4-5 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, Some duplex sheet feed scanners produce skewed output, so the resulting PDF file could use deskewing. 'Tools>Clean up>Deskew' implies 'unpaper' can automatically deskew, but it's never worked for me; other users report sim