Package: gscan2pdf
Version: 1.0.4-5
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

Some duplex sheet feed scanners produce skewed output, so the resulting
PDF file could use deskewing.  'Tools>Clean up>Deskew' implies 'unpaper' 
can automatically deskew, but it's never worked for me; 
other users report similar disappointments, e.g.:

    Unpaper (http://unpaper.berlios.de/) is a CLI tool for the job, 
    which supports double pages, ...  But in my experience it didn't work at 
all...
    
http://linux-tipps.blogspot.com/2011/09/cropping-scanned-pages-eg-double-pages.html

What's needed is auto-deskewing that works.

HTH...


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gscan2pdf depends on:
ii  imagemagick                  8:6.7.7.10-5
ii  libconfig-general-perl       2.50-1
ii  libgoo-canvas-perl           0.06-1+b2
ii  libgtk2-ex-simple-list-perl  0.50-2
ii  libgtk2-imageview-perl       0.05-1+b2
ii  libhtml-parser-perl          3.69-2
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl       1.05-7+b1
ii  liblog-log4perl-perl         1.29-1
ii  libpdf-api2-perl             2.019-1
ii  libproc-processtable-perl    0.45-3+b1
ii  libreadonly-perl             1.03-4
ii  librsvg2-common              2.36.1-1
ii  libsane-perl                 0.05-2
ii  libset-intspan-perl          1.16-1
ii  libtiff-tools                4.0.2-1
ii  perlmagick                   8:6.7.7.10-2
ii  sane-utils                   1.0.22-7.4

Versions of packages gscan2pdf recommends:
ii  djvulibre-bin              3.5.25.3-1
ii  gocr                       0.49-1
ii  libgtk2-ex-podviewer-perl  0.18-1
ii  sane                       1.0.14-9
ii  tesseract-ocr              3.02.01-4.1
ii  unpaper                    0.4.2-1
ii  xdg-utils                  1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-6

gscan2pdf suggests no packages.

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