Observed arrival · 2026-11-15
Briss 2.0: Scanned books, made readable
A free desktop app and command-line tool that crops scanned PDFs for easier reading on e-readers, tablets, and phones.
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- Readers using e-readers, tablets, or phones
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- The site says cropping changes only the visible page box, preserving text, vectors, bookmarks, links, and encryption.
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The desktop app can process individual files or folders and saves each result beside its original. Its preview displays crop boxes and the resulting pages, with controls to resize or move a box and step through pages or files. The site says born-digital PDFs use a separate auto-crop approach that groups pages by size and odd or even side.
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