Troubleshooting · Projects Project Opens with Missing Images? Fixing Moved ScanTailor Projects You moved a finished project to another folder, drive, or computer — and now ScanTailor Advanced opens it with page after page reported missing. Your scans are almost certainly still on disk. The project has simply lost track of where they live. The…
Troubleshooting · Windows Security SmartScreen Warning on the ScanTailor ZIP? Verify It, Then Run It Safely “Windows protected your PC” — Microsoft Defender SmartScreen stopped the ScanTailor Advanced ZIP or program because it is “untrusted”. For unsigned open-source software this warning is expected. The safe response is not to ignore it blindly: verify the file’s…
Troubleshooting · Output Quality Black Edges on Scanned Pages? Clean Them Up in ScanTailor Advanced Your processed pages come out framed by black or grey borders — the edge of the scanner lid, the shadow in the book gutter, or a strip of whatever surrounded the page during capture. ScanTailor can strip most of this…
Troubleshooting · Output Output the Wrong Size? How to Fix DPI in ScanTailor Advanced Your processed pages look right on screen, but the exported files print at the wrong physical size, produce PDFs with odd page dimensions, or come out at an unexpected resolution. Nine times out of ten this is not an export bug…
Troubleshooting · Linux Blank or Broken Preview on Wayland? Fix ScanTailor Advanced Rendering On a Linux Wayland session, ScanTailor Advanced may open with a blank or garbled page preview, dialogs that paint incorrectly, or a flickering interface — while the same build works fine under X11. This is a known issue with how the application…
Troubleshooting · Windows ScanTailor Advanced Won’t Open? Work This Checklist in Order Double-click, a brief pause — and nothing. Or the window flashes and closes immediately. “Won’t start” has several different causes on Windows, and guessing wastes time. Work through this checklist in order; each step rules out one cause, starting with the most common….
Troubleshooting · Windows VCRUNTIME140.dll or MSVCP140.dll Not Found — Fix for ScanTailor Advanced You extracted the ScanTailor Advanced ZIP, double-clicked the program, and Windows answered with a “dll was not found” error instead of the app. This is the most common first-run problem on Windows — and it is not a problem with ScanTailor itself….
