Is there a tool to autocrop and straighten scanned images?

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Is there a tool to autocrop and straighten scanned images?

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I only find Photoshop tutorials or software that does only one of the two, but I remember I had the function in the HP scanner software.
I would like to take an image, mostly from scanner and automatically:
- straighten it, also known as deskew, rotate it
- crop it to the actual content, trimming borders

Some software is also able to recognize multiple images in a single scan, but this is too advanced, I would just like to autorotate&crop a single image, looking at the result, obviously it would be good to apply a batch transformation to a selected set of files.

And best of all of course, doing this in TotalCommander!
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Re: Is there a tool to autocrop and straighten scanned images?

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I personally use ImageMagick to do those tasks. From TC I have made a dedicated Graphical button bar using TCBL to process all selected file from regular folder. See some sample from TCBL tool wiki.
You can make as many command as you which in tcbl.ini file or have dedicated imagic in file.

Then you can create em/user command or button calling tcbl from TC using tcbl.ini scripts.

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cmd: <path to>\tcbl.exe
params:-i %L imagik.RotateLeft
Use convert.exe command instead of mogrify.exe for your test and add target file.
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Re: Is there a tool to autocrop and straighten scanned images?

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Can you help me with Imagemagick? I'cant find a way to rotate or crop the images AUTOMATICALLY.

In the while I found that you can do this with the batch actions of Xnview, and the MP version has even a preview. The trim/crop is not able to cut out all the margins even if I set maximum tolerance, but this is a minor problem.
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Re: Is there a tool to autocrop and straighten scanned images?

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What you want to achieve is probably OK with the following command:

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convert scan.jpg -fuzz "30%" -trim +repage -deskew "40%" scan_processed.jpg
I googled with some good words and found it here see latest post.

Do some test and adjust to your need..
If you want to do additional command you can add as many cmd entry as you need.

You can make a command entry in tcbl.ini

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[imagick.process_scan]
ini=q
# change to your imageMacick bin path
pre=set PATH=C:\tools\graphic\ImageMagick\;%PATH%
pre=set img_fz="30%"
pre=set img_dkw="40%"
cmd=convert "$f" -fuzz "%img_fz%" -trim +repage -deskew "%img_dkw%" "$z_processed.$e"
and then add a user command and/or a button manu entry .......

--edited code sample
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Re: Is there a tool to autocrop and straighten scanned images?

Post by *mikedepetris »

great help thank you, experimenting I found that it is better to precede -deskew and then -trim, I still can't find a perfect trim of all borders, but it is enough by far!
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