[digiKam-users] Feature, plugin, or advice scanning old photos

[Marc Palaus]

For the first question, I had some short bash scripts that automatically 
straightened the pictures (and rotated them if they were in portrait 
format), cropped them and corrected the color temperature for a whole 
folder, although in some cases a manual revision was still needed. They 
use ImageMagick. But they are for linux (or windows if you have the 
linux subsystem installed). Tell me if you are interested and and I'll 
share them.

No idea on how to scan/store two-side pictures. I just scan both and 
give them similar names (like ending in _anverse and _reverse 
respectively). OCR for handwriting text, in my experience, doesn't work 
very well with any of the existing software solutions. I tried a few to 
index some genealogical records, and the results were terrible...

Marc


El 26/10/22 a les 11:47, Randy Wolf ha escrit:
> I have a two part question. Using digikam on windows.
>
> I'm currently digitizing bunch of family photos using a scanner. 
> Scanner has a crap feature to recognize and then scan bunch of 
> individual photos placed on the platten at once. But it is implemented 
> terribly, is slow, has poor edge detection, and generally not useful.
>
> So... Questions
>
> 1) is there a feature or plugin or technique anyone knows of that 
> would make it easy to scan a full platten with several photos and then 
> easily split those photos into individual photos with the click of a 
> button?
>
> 2) does anyone have a technique or best practice for scanning both 
> sides of a photo which has writing on the reverse in such a way that 
> the photo and the reverse of the photo stay together forever? It'd be 
> cool if photo formats had embedded front/back images in single file. I 
> don't want to (only) transcribe the writing because sometimes the 
> handwriting itself can provide clues about who wrote it, so I want to 
> scan it.
>
> Bonus question: any chance we'll see a feature which will do OCR to 
> auto transcribe words in photos and store it in searchable metadata? 
> Useful for words in a photo but also for handwritten notes on the 
> backs of photos as well.
>
>
> Thanks to the community and especially devs for such a great product.
>
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