pdf-to-scan
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Make your PDFs look like they were scanned
PDFtoScan
PDFtoScan uses the idea implemented in baicunko's website to make your PDFs look like they were scanned in a CLI-based app.
Installation
$ pip install pdf-to-scan
Usage
Usage: pdf-to-scan [OPTIONS] FILE_NAME
Options:
--help Show this message and exit.
Example
$ pdf-to-scan in.pdf
Dependencies
The script requires ghostscript and imagemagick to run.
These can be installed using,
For Ubuntu
$ sudo apt-get install imagemagick
$ sudo apt-get install ghostscript
For macOS
$ brew install imagemagick
$ brew install ghostscript
For Windows
Check out this link for ImageMagick, and this link for ghostscript.
PDF support in ImageMagick might be disabled be default on your os/distro. To fix this, comment out this line in /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml
<policy domain="coder" rights="none" pattern="PDF" />
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