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I have hundreds of documents, which are rounded: the document was not straight when it was photographed, and the image is curved or rounded in various ways.

I'm looking for an automatic or semi-automatic process, that will

  • detect the lines (not OCR, just line curves),
  • straighten the whole page according to the (assumed) text lines.

Can you point me a software or feature, or even code that tries to fix this?

example attached (original):

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after an (imperfect) manual fix (gimp, cage transformation):

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  • if u have only two case (left page and right page) and all pictures shot from same angle(same distort on each page) then i might help you for some action or script for photoshop but still we have many professional for gimp so just wait for their answer :)
    – Mr.Online
    Commented Apr 15, 2019 at 11:27
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    It might help to know that this language (Hebrew) "hangs" its letters from a "baseline" that runs across the tops of the letters' x-height rather than English which runs across the bottoms of the letterforms. The Arabic numbers "sit" a conventional baseline that has been imposed upon the average base of the Hebrew line alignment.
    – Stan
    Commented Apr 15, 2019 at 15:03
  • @stan - Hebrew is exactly like English in this respect: It has a bottom baseline. and like other latins, some letters are taller (לf), some go down (קךgy).
    – Berry Tsakala
    Commented May 2, 2019 at 12:29

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Free experimental program Scan Tailor made this:

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The shown image used automatic dewarping. It really seems to reduce curvature substantially with no effort.

There is also manual dewarping grid which felt very responsive an gave better results:

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The program asks in the beginning which folder contains the page scans that should be straightened and is the writing European or something like Hebrew or Arabic.

The process is semiautomatic, for every page one must select the interesting area, margins and possibly needed rotation & skewing or accept automatic guesses.

I have not tried the program for any big projects, only tested it for separate page scans. It's available here https://scantailor.org

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  • Very good find.
    – joojaa
    Commented Jul 14, 2020 at 15:05

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