I have a mac and the Image Capture app (which already comes with macOS) has a decent cropping function. The problem is that I don’t want to crop all images by hand. My next idea was to use the flatbed scanner we already have in our multifunction printer. Scanning and segmenting images with Image Capture almost worked It takes forever to scan a single photo, there are artifacts on the images, and since pictures are not flat, the scans often come out distorted.
I tried a few apps but none of them worked.
I have seen apps such as Google Photo Scan that promise to avoid glare and other artifacts that you get if you just took a photo. My first idea was to use the good camera on my phone. Now the question is how? In this post I am showing that a simple flatbed scanner and some open source command line tools (Fred’s ImageMagick Scripts, ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick, Parallel, Exiftool, and standard UNIX tools) are fast and produce good quality images. I like flipping through digital photos and so I decided that it’s time to get all the pictures into digital form. How we are scanning dozens of photo albums and process them with open source toolsĪs a millennial, most of my childhood is not recorded in digital photos but in videos on VHS tapes and photos albums that my parents have.
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