Current recommended procedure to batch scan photos

[pmowry911]

Good day,
  I was given boxes of family albums.  Most I can separate the pictures, but others are the glue pages holding everything in place where the best I can do is remove the spiral binging and plastic overlay.  Picture counts and sizes will vary on each page.  Looking a batch scripts to separate the individual images in a scan  the most recent I see use deskew.exe to realign the images, but that doesn't seem to be around anymore.

  What are the current suggested workflows for doing this type of work.  Dust removal and color correction can happen later.  I have windows 10 macOS and Ubuntu Linux systems available so my options their are wide open.

Thank you for your time and suggestions,

-Patrick

[denzjos]

Found this but get no result on windows 8 / gimp 2.10.32. Maybe someone has an idea...
https://www.mysysadmintips.com/windows/h...h%20other).

[rich2005]

Quote:Looking a batch scripts to separate the individual images in a scan  the most recent I see use deskew.exe to realign the images, but that doesn't seem to be around anymore.

I assume you are using one of the DivideScannedImages.scm variants.  Deskew plugin, linux and Windows versions attached. Unzip and use the appropriate version.

Quote:What are the current suggested workflows for doing this type of work.  Dust removal and color correction can happen later.  I have windows 10 macOS and Ubuntu Linux systems available

Nothing new available for batch but for individual sheets which might defy DivideScannedImages, maybe the gimp_gmic_qt plugin http://www.gmic.eu One of the filters is Arrays & Tiles -> Extract Objects. You do get them as layers. There are plugins to export layers to individual files. Deskew will straighten a layer or an individual file. 

Example kubuntu 20.04 / Gimp 2.10.32 (a couple of 40 year old work photos) https://i.imgur.com/1p9Giyg.mp4  
You can also straighten using the measure tool.

Quote:Dust removal and color correction can happen later.

G'mic also has clean up / de-speckle / color tools

[pmowry911]

Thank you both,
  The link to deskew where I originally grabbed  DivideScannedImages.scm didn't work, and the script tended to cut things up more than desired.

I'll give G'MIC-Qt a try a little later,  A quick test it identified 5 of 6 pictures with no issue, but I have a render I forgot about running in the background making it painfully slow.  So It's not a point at the directory and set it loose kind of thing, but in the long run I think it will be the faster process that trying to tweak the batch script.


Thanks again,

[denzjos]

After a few tries, the DivideScannedImages is now working on my windows 10 / gim 2.10.32.
For a test page with 3 old photos I set the sliders  :
Selection Threshold 25,0
Size Threshold 10,0
Abort Limit 15,0
Background Sample X Offset 20,0
Background Sample Y Offset 20,0
Then I straightened the results with Shellout in combination with ShiftN

https://www.shiftn.de