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Straighten and crop
Split spreads, straighten pages, set content boxes and margins, and correct curved lines before export.
ScanTailor Spectre 2.0 beta 2 · macOS
Turn raw scans into clean, searchable books.
ScanTailor Spectre guides photographed and scanned pages through a ten-stage workflow, from orientation and cleanup to OCR, metadata, PDF export, and an optional return to Zotero.
Requires macOS 15 or later · Apple silicon · Zotero optional
01The workshop
Every page goes
through ten stages.
Load a folder of page images or a PDF, then move through a focused sequence for orientation, splitting, deskewing, content selection, layout, dewarping, cleanup, OCR, and export.
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Protect pictures
Balance exposure with precise controls and preserve photographs while cleaning text and page backgrounds.
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OCR and Zotero
Create searchable PDFs, add book metadata, and return the finished file to its originating Zotero item.
02Installation
Drag it to
Applications.
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Open the disk image
Download and double-click
ScanTailor-Spectre-2.0b2-20260816-0107.dmg. -
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Move ScanTailor Spectre to Applications
Drag ScanTailor Spectre.app onto the Applications folder, then open it normally.
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Make a project
Import scans or a PDF and work through the ten stages. For the optional Zotero round trip, install the bundled plugin from the Help menu.
03Details
What you are
downloading.
| Version | 2.0 beta 2 · build 20260816.0107 |
|---|---|
| System | macOS 15+ / Apple silicon |
| Distribution | Developer ID signed, Apple-notarized, and stapled |
| Downloads | DMG disk image · ZIP archive |
| Source | GitHub · abandoned-industries/scantailor-spectre |
| DMG SHA-256 | 29fdf312de7c513d39cdd57629fe74b85d6ee4264ca4a0ad06f595421ce278cb |
| ZIP SHA-256 | 8b5ebd77acd29abb9c6a34ac7e3b2828102f250aa7820edb11fd2f6845ec1632 |
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