Tutorial · Capture Settings Scanning DPI Guide for ScanTailor: 300 or 600 DPI, and Why the Number Must Be True DPI is decided before ScanTailor Advanced ever opens — at the scanner — yet it shapes everything the pipeline does afterwards: how much detail binarization can judge, how large your files get, and whether the…
Tutorial · Working at Book Scale Batch Processing in ScanTailor Advanced: Set It Once, Process the Whole Book Nobody processes a 400-page book one page at a time. ScanTailor Advanced is built around the opposite rhythm: tune a stage on a few representative pages, propagate the settings with Apply To, then let the batch run…
Tutorial · Output Stage Binarization and Threshold Methods in ScanTailor Advanced: Choosing How a Page Becomes Black and White Binarization is the decision, pixel by pixel, of what becomes black ink and what becomes white paper. It is the single biggest determinant of whether your finished book looks crisp or moth-eaten — and ScanTailor Advanced…
Tutorial · Output Stage Dewarping in ScanTailor Advanced: Flatten Curved Book Pages A page photographed in the gutter of a thick book is not a rectangle — it curves down into the spine, and its text lines curve with it. Dewarping builds a distortion model of that curved page and re-renders it flat. It lives…
Tutorial · Stage 5 of 6 Page Layout and Margins in ScanTailor Advanced: Hard Margins, Soft Margins, Uniform Pages This is the stage that makes a stack of independently scanned pages read as one book: the same margins on every page, the same finished size, the text block sitting in the same place. The mechanism…
Tutorial · Stage 4 of 6 Select Content in ScanTailor Advanced: Get the Content Box Right Select Content decides what on each page is worth keeping. The rectangle you approve here becomes the basis of the finished page’s size — too tight and you amputate page numbers, too loose and every page carries scanner-bed debris…
Tutorial · Stage 3 of 6 Deskew in ScanTailor Advanced: Straighten Tilted Text — Including Oblique Deskew Orientation fixed the quarter-turns. Deskew fixes the small angles: the one-or-two-degree tilt that makes text lines slope across the page and quietly sabotages OCR. This stage also hosts v1.1.1’s headline addition — oblique deskew for pages that are…
Tutorial · Stages 1–2 of 6 Split Pages in ScanTailor Advanced: One Page, Part of the Next, or a Two-Page Spread Before anything can be straightened or cleaned, ScanTailor Advanced has to know what a “page” is in your scans. Stage 1 fixes orientation; Stage 2 decides how each scan divides. Get these two right…
Tutorial · Start Here Getting Started with ScanTailor Advanced: Your First Project, End to End This is the flagship walkthrough: one small book, taken from a folder of raw scans to clean, uniform, print-ready pages. Work through it once and every other guide on this site — one per pipeline stage — will make sense….
