--unpaper-args and --clean-final

In the release notes it is stated that

The argument --clean-final now implies --clean.

In the documentation however the following commands are shown as an example:

ocrmypdf --clean --clean-final --unpaper-args ‘–layout double’ input.pdf output.pdf ocrmypdf --clean --clean-final --unpaper-args ‘–layout double --no-noisefilter’ input.pdf output.pdf

So are those examples outdated, or do I misinterpret the statement in the release notes, since in those examples --clean could be omitted?

Additionally, in another thread you wrote

I am thinking that I will change the behavior so that --unpaper-args implies --clean and --clean-final.

Do you still plan to implement that?

[jbarlow83]

@githubnavigator The idea would be that all of that functionality could be packaged in a short script: ocrmypdf-poster in.pdf out.pdf.

Generally I want to make it easier for people to customize things and attract more contributions.

I am both working on making ocrmypdf usable as a library and making the library extensible. That should make it easier to implement page splitting, but I don’t think would be doable with plugins alone. As it currently looks the way to do that would be use to use components of ocrmypdf as a library in a custom command line driver.

[githubnavigator]

Oh. Well, if possible, if you could please leave the “–unpaper-args” option in there, I’d really appreciate it. A separate Python script would significantly increase the complexity for me.

I was able to achieve my desired goals using these commands:

mutool poster -x 2 -y 1 in.pdf out.pdf
ocrmypdf --force-ocr --unpaper-args '--layout single' --deskew --clean-final in.pdf out.pdf