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

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:

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 jeffrey.ratcli...@gmail.com 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

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. 'ToolsClean upDeskew' implies 'unpaper' can automatically deskew, but it's never worked for me; other users report