Cropping black borders from manuscript

[toppah]

Dear all,

I read a lot on the forums before posting here but I cannot solve my issue, so I hope you can help me dealing with this matter:
I simply would like to remove black borders around my images produced from a digital camera which take pictures of ancient manuscripts.

This is my sample image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/imrs6unowxdte ... X.tif?dl=0

This is the command I am now using and it actually works!

convert IMGP2341DX.tif -bordercolor black -border 1 -fuzz 40% -fill black -draw "color 0,0 floodfill" -shave 1x1 prova.tiff
convert -fuzz 95% -trim prova.tiff fine.tiff

The problem arises when I se up a bash script to loop through the files, the command above does not give the same result.

This is my script: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3eug0mk761x8d ... ge.sh?dl=0


the problem seems to be the following line:
convert ${f} -monitor -bordercolor black -border 1 -fuzz 40% -fill black -draw "color 0,0 floodfill" -shave 1x1 shaved-tmp${f}

if I launch the script with bash -x I see that the command is launched as this:

convert IMGP2341DX.tif -bordercolor black -border 1 -fuzz 40% -fill black -draw 'color 0,0 floodfill' -shave 1x1 prova.tiff

instead of:
convert IMGP2341DX.tif -bordercolor black -border 1 -fuzz 40% -fill black -draw "color 0,0 floodfill" -shave 1x1 prova.tiff

What do you think?

Thanks a lot,

L.

[snibgo]

What version of IM are you using?

... the command above does not give the same result.

What is different about the result? Please post the two versions of the image.

I notice the file IMGP2341DX.tif is encoded in AddobeRGB. That won't cause a problem to IM, but some viewers will ignore this and assume the image is sRGB.