annoying failure with thresholding

[magiotrope]

This might be a general imagemagick issue rather than perl-specific, but I'm using perl (and command-line convert)

So far, imagemagick thresholding is, at best, flaky for me, or even downright useless. Gimp's Colors->Threshold removes light-gray fuzz from my image, leaving just black and white pixels, with its default value of 127 (of max 255).

It would seem that

convert 50% in.jpg out.jpg

or

convert 32768 in.jpg out.jpg

or

$image->Threshold(threshold=>'50%')

would achieve the same thing -- remove the fuzz. But none of the above three are removing the fuzz.

I've also played with -white-threshold and -black-threshold, and it's just ineffective, for the stated objective.

Any suggestions?

thanks

[fmw42]

convert 50% in.jpg out.jpg

I do not use or know perl, but the above in not correct. It should be

convert in.jpg -threshold 50% out.jpg

[magiotrope]

convert 50% in.jpg out.jpg

I do not use or know perl, but the above in not correct. It should be

convert in.jpg -threshold 50% out.jpg

yup, sorry -- that was a typo on my part. I have been trying it with the CORRECT syntax, like the one you spelled out. What I said originally still stands -- the imagemagick thresholding does not remove light-gray fuzz. But the Gimp threshold DOES.

thanks

[fmw42]

can you provide a link to your image?

and tell us exactly what your command line is and what version of IM and platform you are using?

[magiotrope]

can you provide a link to your image?

and tell us exactly what your command line is and what version of IM and platform you are using?

I solved my problem. It was the destination format. Duh! I was thresholding the original image and then saving it back to a jpg, with default compression quality that was re-introducing my gray pixelation !

Two possible solutions, so far: make the destination format PBM or similar, or use 100% quality for the jpeg:

1) convert -threshold 50% in.jpg out.pbm

2) convert -threshold 50% -quality 100% in.jpg out.jpg

Both of the above work!

Haven't tried perlmagick, but am assuming it will work (if not, I'll post my rants here )