Auto deskew fails on some spreads

Bug #178001 reported by tomworkman
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Scribe2
Fix Committed
Medium
raj

Bug Description

Sometimes the auto deskew doesn't deskew the text on one side of the spreads. One facing page will be deskewed, and the other will remain skewed.

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KrisBrix (krisbrix) wrote :

The scanner will then have to go in and manually de-skew the page that auto de-skew didn't catch. Also, auto de-skew will skew pages to an extreme angle, this happens on both blank and text pages.

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raj (raj-archive) wrote :

Blank pages doesn't auto-deskew well. The easiest way to deal with this is to just turn off deskew of a blank page, since the cropped page will be all white regardless of how how badly it is skewed.

We think that pages with wide margins are messing up the auto-deskew algorithm. Hopefully we can fix this issue without slowing down the camera loop..

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raj (raj-archive) wrote :

Here are a couple books with bad auto-deskew..
Some of the early pages in this book:
http://www.archive.org/details/stevensgenealogy00stev

The photo opposite the title page is skewed wrong on this one:
http://www.archive.org/details/genealogyhistory00alle

Changed in scribe2:
assignee: nobody → raj-archive
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
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raj (raj-archive) wrote :

It turned out that biggest cause of deskew errors were pieces of bright white foamboard placed underneath the book, with was causing bitonalization to fail. A new version of scribeImageOps (in Scribe 1.2.1) should help with this.

Changed in scribe2:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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