How to the get the coordinates of pixels?

[etrader]

I want to get the coordinates of the points in a line from an image to re-draw it.


I tried

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convert photo.png txt:- | sed -n 's/^\(.*\):.*black$/\1/p'

but it didn't work. I also tried to create white edges as

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convert photo.png -edge 1 -threshold 0 photo.png
convert photo2.png txt:- | sed -n 's/^\(.*\):.*white$/\1/p'

but it didn't work either. Where did I do wrong?

In any case, my ideal solution is to find a set of approximate points (probably from the center of the line) to have the full line coordinates.

[fmw42]

try

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convert xpd2F2A.png -threshold 50% -type bilevel txt:- | tail -n +2 | sed -n 's/^\(.*\):.*gray(0)$/\1/p'

or

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convert xpd2F2A.png -threshold 50% -depth 1 txt:- | tail -n +2 | sed -n 's/^\(.*\):.*black$/\1/p'

or

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convert xpd2F2A.png -threshold 50% -depth 1 txt:- | tail -n +2 | grep "black" | sed -n 's/^\(.*\):.*$/\1/p'

[etrader]

WOW, it worked like a charm. The key is that my points are not completely black and I have to use gray instead, right?

[fmw42]

See my edits above. That is part of it. You need to threshold to make it binary. But different -type or different -depth will result in txt showing the color as gray(0) or black. You should always test your command up to the txt: to see what format you get for the color before filtering.

Note I corrected my first line. I had accidentally put gray(255) which is white and you wanted black or gray(0). I also forgot the -n and have added that.

[fmw42]

If you only want the truly black pixels and not the near black ones, then you can do

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convert xpd2F2A.png txt:- | tail -n +2 | sed -n 's/^\(.*\):.*gray(0)$/\1/p'

[snibgo]

IM version? Platform?

In any case, my ideal solution is to find a set of approximate points (probably from the center of the line) to have the full line coordinates.

The centreline can be traced, and the line expressed as a series of Bezier curves, which IM can draw, or you can create SVG.

See my Lines, points and curves page. I show how to do it, and give away the essential software, but not the complete software.

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%IM%convert oneLine.png -negate -threshold 50%% x.png

call %PICTBAT%lns2pts x.png x.txt

pts2bez /ix.txt /ob.txt

%IM%convert ^
  -size 300x300 xc:White ^
  -fill None ^
  -draw @b.txt ^
  redcurve.png


pts2bez /ix.txt /ob2.txt /e5

%IM%convert ^
  -size 300x300 xc:White ^
  -fill None ^
  -draw @b2.txt ^
  redcurve2.png

[etrader]

IM version? Platform?

ImageMagick 6.8.9-9
Ubuntu 16.04