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Mass Editing

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Deadeye

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Hello, I've got a question regarding the mass editing of ~2900 photographs. They are photographs of (old) bookpages. The job that has to be done is crop them so only the page shows and they have to be turned so they aren't upside down or turned right or left. Now my question is, can any of these jobs be done by a (preferably free) software program? I've got Irfanview for now, with the bat option you can mass-turn items, which isn't optimal since they aren't all turned in the same way.
The main things I would like the program to do are: Don't ask me for save location and overwrite verification everytime I safe (Irfanview does this) and if it would be possible, something that makes the cropping faster.

If necessarily I could post a sample picture, so you can see what has to be done exactly, if my lousy english wasn't clear enough.

Thanks in advance.

Edit: RTFM. I only just found out the saving things are removable, so that only leaves easy cropping and smart rotating.
 
I dont know of anything besides a custom creation that can automatically read each file for seperate photo's and orienty them properly. There might be a custom app that allows you to highlight selected areas of a file and rotate them whichever way you want but I have never heard of such a program. (doesnt mean it doesnt exist)

I think your best free method would be to download Gimp, crop out what you need to and rotate the others. Either way I think your looking at a good time investment.
 
Ok, thank you. Didn't really expect anything else, just hoped :p
Yes, it's a huge timesink. It's only step one though, all of it has to be put in a database, the date of creation for every file has to be inserted and I have to put in the first and the last line of each document. It's going to be very boring, I'm afraid. Mouse arm, here I come.
 
Deadeye said:
Ok, thank you. Didn't really expect anything else, just hoped :p
Yes, it's a huge timesink. It's only step one though, all of it has to be put in a database, the date of creation for every file has to be inserted and I have to put in the first and the last line of each document. It's going to be very boring, I'm afraid. Mouse arm, here I come.
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If I were you I would hire a prostitute to do it.
 
I haven't played with it in a while, but if you have a mac, check out the Automator program. I found it pretty helpful for a variety of things, maybe it could at least do one of the things you need?
 
I don't know how "flat" (i.e. how straight) the text lines are, but a while back I played with OCR software and pictures of pages of books.

The OCR would recognize a line and try and put it horizontal.

There might be options which would allow you to reach your goal in such programs (since they can theoretically identify what should be horizontal)
 
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