"Nadav Har'El" <n...@math.technion.ac.il> writes: > 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.
Hmm... It seems that the feature that is missing is rotation by an abitrary angle. However, from your description I can't see why you would ever need that - you say your originals are rectangular, and it should be easy to place them aligned with the sides of the scanner surface, in the corner, shouldn't it? I also have an HP scanner/printer/fax attached to my computer. My procedure is really dumb: I just put the original rectangular piece of paper on the scanner (in a corner is perfectly fine), click on the KDE launcher button, type "scan" in the search field to get several options, and choose "Scanner Tool" (I believe it is xsane). The preview window allows you to easily restrict the field to what you need and rotate by right angles (if you oriented the original incorrectly). I never encontered a situation in which this would be insufficient. What am I missing? -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
