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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.
For getting ahold of the pictures in the first place, it depends on which route you're going. For a DSLR, look for a companion app on your phone. This will make it easier to take repeated shots and set various controls without touching the camera and bumping your shot. For your phone, Open Camera is fantastic for the same reasons. For a proper scanner, I recommend NAPS2, for reasons I'll get to a bit later. For now, just know that it's a good way of grabbing images from your scanner while controlling quality. It also allows you to export all the scans as individual image files, which is important for the next step.
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.