Tag Archives: ImageMagick

Fear my skeleton.

Posted on 11/06/2010 21:36 by Diziet

Still haven’t quite got the hang of the MagickWand/MagickCore stuff so I’ve been fiddling on the command line so I can get the best sequence of operators together. I’ve found one. A few actually. If I smooth the image (morphology … Continue reading →

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There’s always a gotcha.

Posted on 11/06/2010 18:36 by Diziet

It turns out these features must be new because they’re not in the ubuntu binaries or source. So here comes a quick guide to compiling image magick under ubuntu.

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Well that was sodding hard work….

Posted on 28/05/2010 21:13 by Diziet

OK so I’ve praised MagicWand now I feel I can curse it. I want a 1bit BMP out of the thing. A bitmap is easy, it’s smart. I write something ending in jpg it writes a jpg, I want a … Continue reading →

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MagickWand and OCR

Posted on 28/05/2010 12:51 by Diziet

The problem with photographs and OCR is they contain lots of noise and colour that is really not helpful.  Levels and Posterise alongside other tools in the GIMP or Photoshop help but they’re hardly automatic and can’t be compiled into … Continue reading →

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