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> It's a 100 page paperback book, with illustrations and text, on facing pages. The pages are yellowed, so it's not an option simply scan to PDF - they'll need
by pvaldes 4y ago
> It's a 100 page paperback book, with illustrations and text, on facing pages. The pages are yellowed, so it's not an option simply scan to PDF - they'll need to be cleaned up.
If is a repetitive task it looks more like a job to automatize on imagemagick. Gimp can do it also with plugins, but I would meditate first about imagemagick instead to repeat the same sequence of commands 100 times on Gimp.
Then use a quick script on Perl or your preferred language of choice for writing the main part of the tex file for you. Something like this on pseudocode:
open file output
print $output "lines of preamble";
for each $file in directory "pagesofbook"
{print output.tex "\begin{figure}\includegraphics{$file}\end{figure};\n;}
print output.tex "\end{document}";
close output.tex;
then fine-tune the texfile