How To Install scantailor on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install scantailor on Fedora 34.
What is scantailor
Scan Tailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. It performs operations such as page splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, and others. You give it raw scans, and you get pages ready to be printed or assembled into a PDF or DJVU file. Scanning, optical character recognition, and assembling multi-page documents are out of scope of this project.
We can use yum or dnf to install scantailor on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install scantailor.
Install scantailor on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install scantailor using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install scantailor
Install scantailor on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install scantailor using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install scantailor
How To Uninstall scantailor on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the scantailor package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove scantailor
scantailor Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/scantailor
/usr/bin/scantailor-cli
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/86
/usr/lib/.build-id/86/87bb71bd1a9c0e15756ea8b9c648827fd45aa3
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd/ab0bf7d953a0c0a6ff422e2dd3684e3f02b845
/usr/share/applications/scantailor.desktop
/usr/share/doc/scantailor
/usr/share/doc/scantailor/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/scantailor/COPYING-icons
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/scantailor.svg
/usr/share/scantailor
/usr/share/scantailor/translations
/usr/share/scantailor/translations/scantailor_bg.qm
/usr/share/scantailor/translations/scantailor_cs.qm
/usr/share/scantailor/translations/scantailor_de.qm
/usr/share/scantailor/translations/scantailor_es.qm
/usr/share/scantailor/translations/scantailor_fr.qm
/usr/share/scantailor/translations/scantailor_it.qm
/usr/share/scantailor/translations/scantailor_ja.qm
/usr/share/scantailor/translations/scantailor_pl.qm
/usr/share/scantailor/translations/scantailor_pt_BR.qm
/usr/share/scantailor/translations/scantailor_ru.qm
/usr/share/scantailor/translations/scantailor_sk.qm
/usr/share/scantailor/translations/scantailor_uk.qm
/usr/share/scantailor/translations/scantailor_zh_TW.qm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install scantailor on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.