Yesterday, 01:01 PM
Hello,
I don't do much image editing in anything resembling robust software. Apologies in advance if I use terms that are incorrect (please feel free to correct me).
What I'm trying to accomplish - I routinely digitize archived paper documents that are oftentimes spiral bound or comb bound. I usually unbind these to get good scans. The problem is, the scans always show the edges of the paper and the holes left from binding. I would like to automate 'whiting out' the margins to erase these marks on the scans so I can get a cleaner scan for archiving. I want to retain the original image size so the contents of the document look like the original, including keeping original margins and whatnot.
I am using GIMP 2.10. I found the BIMP plugin and started messing with the features in that. It seems like automated a crop is pretty straight-foward with that plugin, but I don't see a way to retain the original image size. GIMP has options to retain the original image size when cropping an image. Crop may not be the right function to accomplish what I want, so any advice is appreciated.
I don't do much image editing in anything resembling robust software. Apologies in advance if I use terms that are incorrect (please feel free to correct me).
What I'm trying to accomplish - I routinely digitize archived paper documents that are oftentimes spiral bound or comb bound. I usually unbind these to get good scans. The problem is, the scans always show the edges of the paper and the holes left from binding. I would like to automate 'whiting out' the margins to erase these marks on the scans so I can get a cleaner scan for archiving. I want to retain the original image size so the contents of the document look like the original, including keeping original margins and whatnot.
I am using GIMP 2.10. I found the BIMP plugin and started messing with the features in that. It seems like automated a crop is pretty straight-foward with that plugin, but I don't see a way to retain the original image size. GIMP has options to retain the original image size when cropping an image. Crop may not be the right function to accomplish what I want, so any advice is appreciated.