Scanned Book (2)

Open the app — PDF Border Cleaner Lay a book face down on a copier and everything around it comes out pitch black. The lid can’t close, so the empty space gets photographed along with the page. Material from libraries usually arrives in exactly this state. On screen you shrug it off, but printing is another matter. Filling in those black borders drains toner alarmingly fast, and the paper comes out damp. Print one 100-page document and you start resenting the cost of toner. ...

Open the app — PDF Left-Right Splitter Open a scanned classical text from a library and more often than not it was photographed with the book lying open. Two pages on one sheet. On paper that feels natural, but on a screen or a tablet the characters end up half size. The page numbers are half the real count too, so every citation needs arithmetic. This tool cuts such PDFs down the middle and separates them into single pages. It sounds simple, but in practice plenty of things get in the way. The cover is a single sheet yet gets sliced in half, vertically written books must be read right to left, and characters near the binding get cut off. Each of those has its own setting here. ...