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# Dockerfile for running https://github.com/kcroker/dpsprep
# Steps to deploy:
# 1) in an empty folder with this Dokcerfile run:
# docker build . -t dps-arch
# 2) in a folder with the djvu file(s) you want to convert to PDF:
# sudo docker run --name dps-arch -d -it -v "$(pwd)":/files dps-arch
# 3) convert a file "infile.djvu" to "outfile.pdf":
# docker exec -it dps-arch dpsprep infile.djvu outfile.pdf

FROM archlinux:base-devel

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(defun my/paste-quote (pages)
  "inserts and formats text from the clipboard, formatted for org-mode"
  (interactive "sEnter page number\(s\): ")
;;;; convert clipboard to string
  (setq quote               
    (with-temp-buffer
      (yank)
      (buffer-string)
))
;;;; remove newlines from string                         

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# convert multipage pdf to single page tiff
gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -sOutputFile=%04d.tif source.pdf -c qui
# or use -sDEVICE=pgmraw to convert to pgm 

# unpaper, rotate the logical page 90 degrees, each logical page contained two scanned physical pages, so we use --layout double (for input) and --output-pages 2 since we want to split these two pages.

unpaper -v --deskew-scan-deviation 3.0 --border-align top --deskew-scan-range 15 --no-grayfilter --no-blurfilter --no-noisefilter --overwrite --pre-rotate 90 --border-scan-step 4 --layout double --output-pages 2 %04d.pgm.pbm unpaper%04d.pbm

# trim the pages and convert the to single-page pdfs
find . -name 'unpaper*' | xargs -i -n1 -P6 convert -trim +repage {} {}.pdf

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Chapter Title

private notes

Don’t read this.

Introduction

This should appear directly after “Chapter Title”, not “Introduction”.