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score-cleaner

A workflow for cleaning and editing PDF scans using GIMP and Python, ImageMagick and ghostscript

oliver thurley, november 2019

Needed:

  • ImageMagick
  • Ghostscript
  • GIMP
  • python scripts:
    • thrly-1-png2xcf.py
    • thrly-2-xcf2pdf.py
      • (both need to be loaded into GIMP plug-ins folder.
        • OS X: Applications/GIMP-2.10.app/Contents/Resources/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/
        • Windows: Program Files\GIMP 2\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins\

Steps

  • Split raw-scan PDF into separate PNG files with ImageMagick and gs: convert -density 300 raw-pages-scan.pdf [[-auto-level // can skip this]] %02d-raw-pages-scan.png
  • Load GIMP, with python scripts. Drop down from ‘thrly’ custom menu:
    • Run THRLY>1)… From directory of PNG files, convert to XCF and auto-level and add ‘background’ layer
  • Ready for editing and cleaning in GIMP
  • Close all files, then run THRLY>2)… to covert all XCF files to PDF pages
  • Final individual PDF files can been combined in Preview (OS X) or ImageMagick
  • make sure that the folders edited PDF files (the ones you want to merge) are in a folder on their own (not with the original scan PDF: gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dAutoRotatePages=/None -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dAutoFilterGrayImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dGrayImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dDownsampleMonoImages=false -dDownsampleGrayImages=false -sOutputFile=finalEditedPages-Merged.pdf *.pdf

NOTES:

  • ensure the python scripts are correctly loaded into the GIMP filepath
  • sometimes new python scrips need to have their permissions updated to make it executable: chmod +x <filepath>

ALTERNATIVE:

use ImageMagick to convert from XCF to PDF: convert *.xcf %02d-edited-xcf.pdf (the file will be massive?)

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