https://github.com/apurvmishra99/pdf-to-scan

Make your PDFs look like they were scanned
https://github.com/apurvmishra99/pdf-to-scan

ghostscript imagemagick pdfs scan scanned-documents

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Make your PDFs look like they were scanned

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/apurvmishra99/pdf-to-scan
• Owner: apurvmishra99
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-05-13T21:04:56.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-05-14T15:18:52.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-01T23:05:00.356Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: ghostscript, imagemagick, pdfs, scan, scanned-documents
• Language: Python
• Size: 9.77 KB
• Stars: 82
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 7
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# PDFtoScan

PDFtoScan uses the idea implemented in [baicunko's](https://github.com/baicunko/scanyourpdf) website to make your PDFs look like they were scanned in a CLI-based app.

## Installation

```console

$ pip install pdf-to-scan

```

## Usage 

```console 

Usage: pdf-to-scan [OPTIONS] FILE_NAME

Options:

  --help  Show this message and exit.

```

## Example

```console

$ pdf-to-scan in.pdf

```

## Dependencies

The script requires `ghostscript` and `imagemagick` to run. 

These can be installed using,

### For Ubuntu

```console 

$ sudo apt-get install imagemagick

$ sudo apt-get install ghostscript

```

### For macOS

```console 

$ brew install imagemagick

$ brew install ghostscript

```

### For Windows

Check out this [link](https://imagemagick.org/script/download.php) for ImageMagick, and 

this [link](https://www.ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html) 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`

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