![]() In Lightroom, I do a batch conversion to B&W, change contrast, shadow etc.In Photos app, on my laptop, I then export all this stuff without modification (export as original). ![]() Launch vFlat for the initial cropping and de-skewing.This gives me time to use my hands to flatten each page. Take pictures of each page with the three-second timer mode, on iPhone.Better than I was able to do manually in Photoshop. The app not only cropped each page, but deskewed and, above all, de-warped the necessary pages with mind-blowing results. HOLY SMOKES! For a free app, this one takes the cake. I then tried a free app, much raved in a few online forums devoted to book scanning. This works, but is painstakingly time-consuming. I’m a bit of a perfectionist and tried, first, to manually de-warp with Photoshop. My issue, as expected, was in de-warping pages at the beginning and end of the book. I just completed my first couple of books, using a table clamp mount for an iPhone (I bought this one). I also had fingers crossed that a decades-old Open Source desktop app for the PC, called Scan Tailor, would become accessible for Mac users (that did happen, very recently). I’ve been putting this off after doing a lot of research on HOW to do this, because I don’t own a scanner, and didn’t want to mutilate the books themselves. One of my longer term projects, has been to digitize a bunch of out-of-print history and genealogy books on my shelves.
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