I'm using PHPSANE (http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpsane/). It doesn't do auto crop but I can see on my browser whats the pic and with 2 clicks to decide which part to scan.
Hetz 2011/5/3 Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il> > Hi, > > I have a flatbed scanner (by HP) attached to my Linux machine, and I often > need to scan rectangular items such as photographs, CD inserts, and the > occasional piece of paper. > > At the moment, I follow a tedious manual process to do that: The scanner > generates a big image of everything it sees on glass window, and then using > Gimp I manually rotate the image (because I can't place it on the window > with > 100% precision) and then crop it to the rectangle. > > Supposedly, Photoshop has an "Automate->Crop and Straighten Photos" > feature > (see http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-editing/crop-straighten/) > but I couldn't find such a feature in Gimp. > > I was really surprised that I couldn't easily find some program to do this > automatically: The program would recognize (using a relatively simple > algorithm) > the foreground rectangle in the image, rotate it to be perfectly > horizontal, > and then crop the image to it. > > Does anyone know of such a program? Obviously, it needs to be free software > running on Linux. Bonus points if it's a command line program (a la netpbm > or imagemagick) and not an "integrated" GUI program. Extra bonus points if > it's a pipeline of netpbm or netpbm-like tools :-) But any other sort of > (free) solution would also be acceptable. > > Thanks, > Nadav. > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, May 3 2011, 29 Nisan > 5771 > n...@math.technion.ac.il > |----------------------------------------- > Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Sign seen in restaurant: We Reserve > The > http://nadav.harel.org.il |Right To Serve Refuse To Anyone! > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- *חץ בן חמו חץ-ביז (הוסטינג) *השכרה ואירוח של שרתים פיזיים השכרת שרתים וירטואליים מקצועיים וגדולים במחירים *קטנים* בקרו באתרנו בכתובת hetz.biz <http://www.hetz.biz/> ובבלוג שלנו: blog.hetz.biz טלפוןן: 0783333113/4/5, אימייל: sa...@hetz.biz מסנג'ר: sa...@hetz.biz - סקייפ: heunique
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