I feel like you may have better luck with something dedicated to image distortions. Like Hugin.
It's relatively trivial to align many images, and then define horizontal/vertical reference lines, and stitch away! On Saturday, July 20, 2013, Geoff Smith wrote: > Problem : > I have a large number of ex-camera jpegs of the pages of a book, > photographed at an archive where scanning is prohibited. A camera stand was > used, with the book supported on foam wedges. Consequently, both pages in > each image are distorted - i.e. each page of a pair is a trapezium. > It is, of course, a simple matter to crop and apply the perspective tool > (twice) to an image to restore the pages to their flat state. Doing it for > several hundred images is a non-starter, and anyway that's what the machine > is for. > > Proposed solution : > Import an image to the Gimp. > Drag and drop a number of images into the same project - as many as the > machine can handle. > Link the image layers. > Crop. > Select one page and use the Perspective Tool to pull the page 'square'. > Repeat for the second page. > Export each image, working down the stack. > > Result : > Selecting the right-hand page and correcting the perspective works, in that > the Gimp progressively works down the layers. But, although each right-hand > page is correctly 'squared up', all the left-hand pages, other than the top > layer, are enlarged and cropped. > > Am I misusing the Gimp, or hoping for too much? > Has anyone done something similar? > > Software used : > 2.6 under Debian Squeeze. > 2.8.2 under Mint 14.1 > 2.8.6 under Windows 7 > All OS 64-bit. > > > Geoff Smith > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://gimp.1065349.n5.nabble.com/Processing-a-stack-of-images-tp39433.html > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org <javascript:;> > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > -- pat david http://blog.patdavid.net _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list