Digital Raws

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The first step in the process of scanlating any manga is obtaining the raws. The first step is to download the file the raws are in, then the second step is to extract the raws from this file.

After extraction, they made need to be post-processed.

PDF

PDF raws are most common when obtaining self-published raws from websites such as https://booth.pm/en

Most raw PDFs are single pages with the images embedded in each page. So the next step is to extract the images that are embedded. There are two tools that are often used.

  1. Poppler Tools' pdfimages tool
    1. Install Poppler Tools
      Linux
      https://poppler.freedesktop.org/
      Windows
      https://github.com/oschwartz10612/poppler-windows/releases
      OSX
      https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/poppler
    2. Ensure the bin directory is on your PATH variable
    3. Open the directory the PDF file is in
    4. Run $ pdfimages -png RAW_FILE.pdf ./
      This will output the files in the same directory as the file. Change the directory that is the final argument to change the output directory.