scantailor-universal VS naps2

You could try ScanTailor: https://scantailor.org/

There's also https://scantailor.org/ (and a maintained fork at https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced ) which semi-automates unwarping and other corrective tasks in scanned books.

Scantailor (https://scantailor.org) is the tool for self-scanned books that exist in images (png, jpg, etc). However, I usually use Irfanview with PDF plugin (https://irfanview.com - download both Irfanview and the Plugins from this home page) I have elsewhere in r/PDF shown how you can do batch splitting of two-page scans, clean up muddy pages (yellowed or browned) . In the Reddit search box, search for Irfanview in this subreddit. Irfanview has lots of commands, so the instructions are very specific, and which I did trial and error on before posting. This is because Irfanview is an image processor and viewer, and PDF transformations are recent to the last couple of years. Note that you will want to run OCR after Irfanview processing, as Irfanview treats PDFs as images (which is what you have now).

Scantailor https://scantailor.org/ might be useful.

scantailor is a good open source option that has a lot of features centered towards this process.

I use OCRmyPDF on a regular basis to OCR journal articles my library sends me.

I've found it works great on English but (with appropriate language packs installed) works poorly on Greek and Hebrew. It also makes no effort to understand the layout of pages (e.g., tables).

The project is fantastic, though. I've often considered building a web frontend that cleans up PDFs and then OCRs them using OCRmyPDF.

For cleaning, check out https://scantailor.org/

Next is the cleanup. Scan Tailor is the best game in town for this, but it's a dead project. Instead, there are two forks that have picked up where the original developers left off. Scan Tailor Advanced is my current fork of choice, though Scan Tailor Universal tries to add new usability features. For whatever reason, only Advanced makes full use of my CPU, so it's several times faster than Universal for the time being.

If you have a HP Printer there is scanning software program (Free and Open source) called Not Another PDF Scanner. https://www.naps2.com/ It's simple to use and works really good with HP printers unlike the software that comes with the printers. Everyone who wants to scan with a HP printers needs this software.

Brother DCP-L2550DW here. One of the cheapest b/w multifunction devices with automatic document feeder and reasonable print and scan performance. Works like a charm on Linux, Windows, Android, and IOS.

I am using it with [NAPS2](https://www.naps2.com/), which is brilliantly simple, multi-platform, free, and open-source.

If you want to add page, remove page, split, merge, reorder, re-orient all or individual pages, ... May I recommend the glorious NAPS2 [1] ?

It's meant as a scanning tool but works just fine without scanning just drag and drop a pdf on it.

It doesn't do in-page editing or annotation, it's "one layer above" that.

[1] https://www.naps2.com/

Tips: For PDF management/splitting/rotation/cropping ect before import: NAPS2 is a good tool (Windows, Linux, Mac). It also support ocr (same as paperless-ngx use) https://www.naps2.com/

To scan to image files, use the included Windows Fax & Scan app. To scan to PDF files, use NAPS2.

The software I use is: https://www.naps2.com/

If you are on windows this can scan and OCR using tesseract. https://www.naps2.com/

Try https://www.naps2.com/ It has Arabic support. Once installed with OCR settings, if you drap pdf onto app, it does OCR.