Optimising PDF Scanned Documents using Linux GNU Parallel, ImageMagick Convert and Python Tkinter UI

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I really didn't spend much time on this UI.... if there is enough interest I might clean it up.
The main differentiator is
* this process scales to hundreds of pages
* as well as higher accuracy because you can manually tweak individual pages.

For me it is worth spending 15minutes if that means the final printed booklet is easier to read for sight-reading.
The example file in the video is terrible quality to begin with.. and I wouldn't normally bother with such a file (there are typically many alternative files for the same piece on IMSLP.com, just a matter of finding a decent quality scan and then applying the series of commands to get a final output that is high contrast, cropped and straightened.

[connorcreegan]

interesting. i have an imagemagick script that crops dimensions based on user-specified standard input but i think i might try to design a gui like you did here because it just seems more practical.

do you know of any optical recognition projects for musical notation? would be pretty cool to be able to port something like what you ended up with here into optical recognition software and get a midi file output that you could put into notation software and get a cleaner-looking final product.