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Getting Started:
    1. Windows
  Text Menu
  (now with video!)
  2. Linux
  Ubuntu
  Env vars
  3. Mac OSX
  4. k2pdfopt Guide (WIP)
  5. Help in other languages

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Customizing K2PDFOPT:
    1. K2pdfopt GUIs
    2. Disabling the Windows GUI
    3. The interactive menu
    4. List of command-line options
    5. Using a shortcut
  (now with video!)
  6. Using the K2PDFOPT environment variable
  7. Using the command line

Adjusting the output:
    1. Screen Size
    2. Increasing the magnification
    3. Landscape mode
    4. Output File Size
    5. Setting Margins
    6. Color Output
    7. Uneven Line Breaks/ Excess Margins

Processing Options:
    1. Showing Markings
    2. OCR
    3. Native PDF
  (now with video!)
    4. Auto-Straightening
    5. Ignoring Borders/ Headers/Footers
    6. Detecting Columns
    7. Protecting Regions
    8. Column Order
    9. Right-to-Left Page Scanning
    10. Using Ghostscript
 
  RIGHT-TO-LEFT PAGE SCANNING
A number of languages (Hebrew, Chinese) are written from right to left. With the -r option in k2pdfopt (v1.23 and up), you can tell it to scan the page that way, both by columns and when breaking lines. See the example below.


Original File


 
Default Conversion with -odpi 300
 
Using -r (and -odpi 300).


Windows GUI Right-2-Left Checkbox

In the text menu versions of k2pdfopt (OSX and Linux), you can also select (r) Right-to-left page scanning from the k2pdfopt interactive settings menu.

 

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