Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Sorry for getting back to this after all this time. I get the same problem with all scans made by this scanner. I've put an example here: original: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0k575roq7bp4ihb/Welsh_AiW.pdf?dl=0 and the output that I get with simply trying: convert Welsh_AiW.pdf test.pdf https://www.dr...

Thanks snibgo. Creating PDFs is the only way my current facilities allow me to scan. I have fiddled around with -density (72x72, 300x300), but to no avail. I've installed and tried Ghostscript yesterday, but it is not obvious for me how to use the relevant -dUseCropBox command. I am on a Mac and doc...

I have a book scan (.pdf) (scanned at 300 dpi) that I want to chop the edges off. Normally I use: convert -gravity West -chop 150x0 test.pdf test2.pdf However, for this particular file, a nice-looking scan is turned into such a poor-looking result, it is difficult to read and impossible to do OCR on...