On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 at 17:05 Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> wrote:
> Hello, > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 03:23:39AM -0800, James R Barlow wrote: > > Let me know if you'd like to see any changes to help with packaging. > > Thank you for your input, and for OCRmyPDF. > > I have a non-packaging question that I'd like to take this opportunity > to ask you: in your changelog entry for 3.2, it's explained that the new > "lossless reconstruction" feature is disabled by --deskew and > --clean-final but otherwise PDF contents are now added to but not > modified by OCRmyPDF. I had observed that OCRmyPDF makes my PDFs much > smaller without making them any harder to read, presumably by changing > the content, and I rather liked this feature. Can I turn it back on? > Or was --clean-final doing this and turning that on would be enough? > > Oh, interesting. By smaller I take it mean the file size was reduced, not resampling of images. Any chance you can send me an example input PDF? (Dropbox is best.) I did increase the JPEG quality that Ghostscript uses when transcoding JPEGs, mostly as an added safety margin, but I can make that optional. Maybe that affects file size more than I thought. > > If you are packaging around 3.1.1, versions older than 3.2.1 are > > incompatible with the recently released img2pdf 0.2.0; they require > > 0.1.5, and they do not enforce this dependency on their own. > > I've got a working package for 3.1 but I'm now trying to update my > packaging for the 3.2 series before I try to find a sponsor DD to upload > to Debian. I'm figuring out how your change to use setuptools-scm can > be made to work with the Debian toolchain. > > If you build the package around a wheel or tarball obtained from PyPI, setuptools_scm should be able to get the version out. It will fail to determine the version from a Github tarball. > My current development branch adds a new dependency on cffi (libffi) to > access > > leptonica (also a tesseract dependency), and automatic fixing of page > rotation. > > Cool! > -- > Sean Whitton >
