Creating these documents

January 16, 2024 - Reading time: ~1 minute

I use a collection of Open Source tools and applications to convert these yellowed Pulp Magazine scans into cleanly rendered PDF files. Here they are:

• Linux Mint - Operating system.
• Tesseract - Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
• Libre Office Writer - proofreading, editing, and so much more.
• OOoFBTools - A Writer plugin that joins lines, removes hyphens, etc.
• GThumb - For cropping the illustrations from the scan.
• ImageMagick - Convert the illustrations to monochrome (B/W).

It is amazing how much you can accomplish with free and open source software!