[Athen] Fixing a Tiff

[Mark C. Mintz]

I’d love to test this out since I just spent an hour trying to figure out how I would do it, but what I would be inclined to do is convert it to a PDF, just so I can use my normal tools, then:


  *   Split odd.pdf 1 page per file into a temporary folder with filename like: A #.pdf
  *   Split even.pdf 1 page per file with a name like: B #.pdf
  *   In powershell use the command:

o        ls | rename-item -NewName {$_.name -replace '(\w+) (\w+)', '$2 $1'}

     *   This reorders the naming from “A 1.pdf” to “1 A.pdf” – essentially making default sort order read the pages in the proper order
  *   Select all files in the folder in windows explorer then context menu -> “combine files in acrobat”. It should add them in the proper order, though, of course, you should verify that.

There’s probably a simpler way, but I was trying to do it without installing software. I know you usually use linux, so I think you can mass rename in a similar manner with sed or some other string manipulator in the command line.

(okay, I looked, you could do the same thing using irfanview command line with the switch -extract, but I don’t feel like installing it right now)

Best,

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From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Deborah Armstrong
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2021 1:36 PM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list at u.washington.edu>
Subject: [Athen] Fixing a Tiff

I have a tiff of a book that was scanned several years ago by a student worker.

He did a superb job, except he scanned all the odd-numbered pages in a chapter, then flipped the stack over and scanned all the even-numbered pages. He created a multi-page tiff for each chapter.

He then used some software a friend wrote to reorder everything the way he wanted it and created his own PDF. All I got were the original tiff files  -- one file per chapter – before he graduated.

Anyway, OmniPage and both Kurzweils have a flip pages feature, but it works when you are actually scanning, not when you have an already-scanned tiff file.

I looked through the documentation for ImageMagick but I couldn’t find anything about automatically reordering pages.

I want to find a batch process for reordering the pages. I was thinking of separating it in to individual pages img001.tif, img002.tif, etc…. I have software to do that …  and then renaming the even numbered pages to 2A, 4A etc. but that’s still manual labor.

I don’t care what the resulting format is as long as pages are in order and it will OCR if needed for a future request.

Anyone have any bright ideas? I can write code if I have to but I was hoping someone already had a program that did it.
--Debee



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