I made a small, specialized tool that speeds up some manual steps when using the book scanning postprocessing software Scan Tailor Enhanced. I don't expect a boatload of users but here is a discussion/questions thread for those who find use for it or find bugs.

QuickPicZone is a helper tool for Scan Tailor Enhanced to make picture zones quickly.



How to use
1. Drag and drop a Scan Tailor black and white mode output file.tif
QPZ displays the matching file.jpg
2. Click and draw a rectangle to set a mixed mode picture zone
3. QPZ saves picture zone data to project file.jpg.scantailor
4. QPZ processes saved project file to output new .tif

Setup
Download and unzip QuickPicZone.
Requires Scan Tailor Enhanced
On first run QPZ ask you to set the path to scantailor-cli.exe

More details on the help page within the program.

Made in Autohotkey by nod5 as Free Software GPL3
Tested in Win7 x64. The zip contains binary and source.

v140624: first version
v141114: Drop multiple .tif to do them in order; Preprocessing mode: Drop .jpg folder to process all to .tif and .scantailor; Preprocessing mode: Drop single .jpg to calculate DPI

Use sumatra_earmarks to earmark any pdf page in SumatraPDF


Features
sumatra_earmark lets you earmark any pdf page in SumatraPDF
Each earmarked pdf page displays a blue square in the top right corner
Quickly toggle earmarks on/off with mouse or keyboard
Quicky jump to next/prev earmark page
Earmarks are autosaved to a textfile
Any pdf with at least one earmark shows a grey square in top right corner
Handy popup grid for quick jump to a specific earmark
Unique earmarks for different pdf files (based on file name)
The pdf files are not edited

Commands
Win+CapsLock = toggle earmark on/off for open pdf page
Win+PgUp/PgDn = jump to prev/next earmarked page in open pdf
Rightclick on blue/grey earmark square = toggle earmark on/off for open pdf page
Ctrl+Rightclick on blue/grey earmark square = popup grid for quick earmark jump
To customize hotkeys see tray icon menu

Download and details
http://nod5.dcmembers.com/sumatra_earmarks.html

v131120 new db format; works with pdf files with complex pagelabels (1,2,i,ii,iii,1.1,1.2,3,4,5...)
v131108 handles roman numeral pagenumbers; clarified help window
v131101 fixed mouse click bug (thanks you ewemoa!)
v131029b easier hotkey customization
v131029 reworked grid code; show current page below grid
v131028: earmark positioned next to scrollbar; trayicon menu; customize hotkeys (see tray menu)
v131026: first version

Please try it and report any bugs or issues.

Things to fix, features to maybe add:
- to fix: resize grid so all digits fit on different screen resolutions and scroll bar widths

I want to use the notepad2-mod code folding feature for note outlining. I would write notes using tabbed indentation to mark each sub level. Then use the code folding action to hide/show sub level text.

notepad2-mod presently does folding in tab indented python (.py) files. But I want it for .txt files and I want it without any text highlighting/coloring effects. Does any notepad2 user here think that is doable? Do you even have some idea on how to do it?

(Note: I searched but found no talk of this for notepad2. However, someone back in 2007 had the same idea for UltraEdit. )

Edit: view > Customize schemes... lists types of code files that notepad2 supports highlighting/folding for. I can simply remove .txt from "Default text" and add it under "Python". But then I also get all the other python highlighting for all txt files. I tried to export the schemes settings, copied and renamed the python section to a new name in the settings file and there removed all color highlighting. But that new section does not appear if I import the edited exported settings. I don't want to disable highlighting for all python files either because I have use for it there. Maybe there is some other code language that can be folded at tab or space indentations? Can anyone see one in this list: