[Digikam-devel] autosplitimage as plugin for digikam

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi Thomas,

I fork your interesting mail to digikam-devel at kde.org mailing list to share
with others developers and to start a thread about.

Happy new year

Gilles Caulier


2009/1/1 Thomas Eschenbacher <Thomas.Eschenbacher at gmx.de>

> Hello Gilles,
>
> some time ago I had the problem that I had a huge collection of scanned
> old/antigue family fotos, scanned in bunches of 4...10 photos scanned at
> once in on A4 page.
>
> I searched for some software that is able to split these A4 pages into
> single photos again, but without success. As conclusion I decided to write
> (or let's better say "hack") a little tool that does that job for me, at
> least semi-automatically.
>
> Some months ago I finished it and put the source of version 0.2 on
> sourceforge. The project is named "autosplitimage", see
>
> "http://sf.net/projects/autosplitimage".
>
> The tool has now done good work for me, I now have an album of ~4500 single
> images, of course managed by digikam ;-) You just have to load a file,
> double click on the "background" and the rest is done automatically (at
> least in 99% of the cases which was enough for me).
>
> But as the tool's job was done, I now no longer have urgent need for it and
> I don't think that I will (or have the time to) spend any further time for
> maintaining it.
>
> So I wanted to ask you if you are interested in taking the challenge and
> maybe make a digikam plugin out of it? Maybe that functionality would be of
> use for other people too?
>
> Please feel free to re-use the code and the algorithms, I put it under
> GPL-v2 (or newer), and already have ported it to Qt4/KDE4.
>
> happy new year,
>
>   Thomas
>
> --
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Thomas Eschenbacher                       <Thomas.Eschenbacher at gmx.de>
>
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