Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Hello,

Does anyone have any experience converting a scanned booklet in printer spreads to single pages in reading order using imagemagick? I have a bunch of stapled booklets that I am scanning. Once I removed the staples I scan them as spreads, so the cover and back cover are on the same scan and so on. I want to automate the cropping and splitting of these images to single pages in the proper order.

Thanks.

Thor

I don't know about the ordering, but you could try my multicrop bash script at the link below or Anthony's improved version at http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/scripts/

Without some sort of indication to find the bounds of the pages, it is difficult to determine exactly what needs to be extracted and distorted to the desirded image size. It is locating those bounds that is the key to any form of automation of this task.