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Compress scanned handwritten notes with Noteshrink
A step-by-step tutorial on reducing the file size of scanned handwritten notes and documents using Noteshrink on Linux. Discover how to extract images from a PDF, clean up the background, improve ink contrast, and repackage it into a much lighter file.
Scan double-sided documents with a single-sided scanner
A practical trick to digitize double-sided documents using an automatic document feeder (ADF) scanner that only reads one side. Using the pdftk tool in the terminal, you will learn how to automatically interleave the stack of odd and even (reversed) pages into a single properly ordered final PDF.
OCR in scanned PDF files with OCRmyPDF
A step-by-step guide to applying Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to scanned PDF documents in Linux using the OCRmyPDF tool and the Tesseract engine. Learn how to convert static images into selectable text documents, optimize their file size, and automate batch processing from the terminal.