{"id":10305,"date":"2020-06-15T13:39:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T13:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=10305"},"modified":"2020-06-15T13:39:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T13:39:36","slug":"gscan2pdf-2-8-0-released-how-to-install-in-ubuntu-20-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/06\/gscan2pdf-2-8-0-released-how-to-install-in-ubuntu-20-04\/","title":{"rendered":"GScan2PDF 2.8.0 Released, How to Install in Ubuntu 20.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/gscan2pdf-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6635\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GScan2PDF, GUI to produce PDFs or DjVus from scanned documents, released version 2.8.0 a few days ago. <\/p>\n<p>Changes in GScan2PDF 2.8.0 include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interpolate colours according to OCR confidence in HSV space.<\/li>\n<li>Limit zoom to 100 to avoid errors<\/li>\n<li>Update text position and rectangle when updating bounding box.<\/li>\n<li>Add button to add to text layer<\/li>\n<li>Add preference to disable device list cache<\/li>\n<li>Add mini-wizard if device not found<\/li>\n<li>Fix save as PS.<\/li>\n<li>And translation updates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gscan2pdf280.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gscan2pdf280.png 520w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gscan2pdf280-450x291.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install gscan2pdf 2.8.0 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~jeffreyratcliffe\/+archive\/ubuntu\/ppa\" target=\"_blank\">official Gscan2PDF PPA<\/a> has made the new release packages for all current Ubuntu releases, and their derivatives, including Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, Ubuntu 20.04, Linux Mint 18.x and 19.x<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open <u>terminal<\/u> either by pressing <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard or by searching for &#8216;terminal&#8217; from application menu. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jeffreyratcliffe\/ppa<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback due to security reason) when it prompts and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/gscan2pdf-ppa-bionic-600x81.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"81\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/gscan2pdf-ppa-bionic-600x81.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/gscan2pdf-ppa-bionic-450x61.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/gscan2pdf-ppa-bionic.jpg 745w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> For those who have a previous release installed, upgrade it through Software Updater:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/update-gscan2pdf-450x313.jpg\" alt=\"upgrade gscan2pdf\" width=\"450\" height=\"313\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/update-gscan2pdf-450x313.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/update-gscan2pdf-600x417.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/update-gscan2pdf.jpg 751w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or run following command in terminal to install or upgrade the software:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo apt update && sudo apt install gscan2pdf<\/pre>\n<p><b>How to Remove:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To remove gscan2pdf, either use your system package manager or run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove --autoremove gscan2pdf<\/pre>\n<p>And the PPA can be removed via <b>Software &#038; Updates<\/b> utility, under Other Software tab.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GScan2PDF, GUI to produce PDFs or DjVus from scanned documents, released version 2.8.0 a few days ago. 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