Bay Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 Anyone that has ever worked with scanned documents has experienced the same problem I'm having - crookedness! Yes, you know, when the page goes through the scanner crooked making the pdf image crooked. Does anyone know if Affinity has any capability to deskew a crooked PDF? Thank you! Quote Apple MacBook Pro (2020) | M1 - 8gb Ram - 256gb HD | Ventura 13.5 Affinity | Photo | Designer | Publisher | 1.10.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 Affinity Photo has the perspective tool. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bay Posted September 8, 2021 Author Share Posted September 8, 2021 10 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: Affinity Photo has the perspective tool. I'll have to look that up and test it but my guess is that it's not a manual feature- not automatic. How would that work for a 30 page document? Quote Apple MacBook Pro (2020) | M1 - 8gb Ram - 256gb HD | Ventura 13.5 Affinity | Photo | Designer | Publisher | 1.10.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 First, get a refill of coffee, and roll up your sleeves Alfred, PaulEC, David in Яuislip and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bay Posted September 8, 2021 Author Share Posted September 8, 2021 25 minutes ago, Wosven said: First, get a refill of coffee, and roll up your sleeves LOL. Noted. ✅ Quote Apple MacBook Pro (2020) | M1 - 8gb Ram - 256gb HD | Ventura 13.5 Affinity | Photo | Designer | Publisher | 1.10.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 I would use XnConvert which has automatic deskew. Handling PDFs may require installation of Ghostscript. And I think XnConvert does not do multipage PDFs, it processes only first page. Separating pages is though not so complicated with right tools. On the other hand, if all pages have same skew you can use transform panel in Affinity and paste same angle to each page quite quick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 13 hours ago, Bay said: Anyone that has ever worked with scanned documents has experienced the same problem I'm having - crookedness! At the risk of stating the obvious, it's better not to skew the document in the first place! Most (decent) scanning software will have a deskew option. If you're using a scanner with autofeed, that should also keep the pages straight. If you're scanning pages one at a time, make sure they line up with the side of the scanner. If all else fails, use the straighten option within the crop tool. (If it's a scanned document you shouldn't need the perspective tool, that is more for a photo of a document, where the camera was not perfectly square to the document.) This does mean a lot of work, if you have lots of pages, as there is no way of doing it automatically. (Unless, as Fixx says the angle of skew is the same on all of them.) Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bay Posted September 9, 2021 Author Share Posted September 9, 2021 42 minutes ago, PaulEC said: At the risk of stating the obvious, it's better not to skew the document in the first place! Most (decent) scanning software will have a deskew option. If you're using a scanner with autofeed, that should also keep the pages straight. If you're scanning pages one at a time, make sure they line up with the side of the scanner. If all else fails, use the straighten option within the crop tool. (If it's a scanned document you shouldn't need the perspective tool, that is more for a photo of a document, where the camera was not perfectly square to the document.) This does mean a lot of work, if you have lots of pages, as there is no way of doing it automatically. (Unless, as Fixx says the angle of skew is the same on all of them.) Thanks for the reply Paul! Yes, I agree with you about scanning carefully. Unfortunately, my request for help is in reference to very old scans others have created. I'm imagining a world where the scanners were the size of small desks; not the pocket-sized versions we have today with the necessary software that performs all of the necessary adjustments automatically. Someday, my guess is that we'll reach herd immunity from such terrible scans. The topics and relevancy of the old scans will become extinct and replaced by the current age of perfectly scanned digital documents. Quote Apple MacBook Pro (2020) | M1 - 8gb Ram - 256gb HD | Ventura 13.5 Affinity | Photo | Designer | Publisher | 1.10.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 If you've got the original book, it can be scanned for a reasonnable price and time (with possibility for them to send it back whole, of letting them unbound it), and get Words documents with and without OCR, ePub, images, etc. It can be usefull when needing to repring some old books. Bay 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 With this sort of job, personally I would straighten them by hand, using the crop tool, but if you want an automated way you could try Fixx's suggestion of XNconvert or Google for an online solution. Best of luck, getting the job done. 🙂 Bay 1 Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bay Posted September 9, 2021 Author Share Posted September 9, 2021 4 hours ago, PaulEC said: With this sort of job, personally I would straighten them by hand, using the crop tool, but if you want an automated way you could try Fixx's suggestion of XNconvert or Google for an online solution. Best of luck, getting the job done. 🙂 4 hours ago, Wosven said: If you've got the original book, it can be scanned for a reasonnable price and time (with possibility for them to send it back whole, of letting them unbound it), and get Words documents with and without OCR, ePub, images, etc. It can be usefull when needing to repring some old books. Agree, thank you guys! Quote Apple MacBook Pro (2020) | M1 - 8gb Ram - 256gb HD | Ventura 13.5 Affinity | Photo | Designer | Publisher | 1.10.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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