Blank Page Detection

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blewis
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Blank Page Detection

Post by blewis »

Someone else asked this a while ago, but the thread never got answered.

Can nconvert/xnView do blank page detection? We need to toss out blank TIFFs as we process our batch of images. I have found a separate program that can do this, but being able to do everything in one pass would be great!

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Re: Blank Page Detection

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If you have blank page, you don't make a convert?
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Post by blewis »

Correct.

We scan lots of paper pages using a high-speed scanner. The user had 5 blank pages on which to write, but their response may only take up 1 or 2 pages. However, the scanner does not know that, it is programmed to scan all 5 paper pages per user. At the end, for example, we then have 2 real (filled out pages) and 3 blanks. We want to automatically get rid of (or not convert) the blank pages.

I have found other software (such as http://www.coolutils.com/TiffPdfCleaner), that can do this. But I was just wondering if XnView had such capabilities?

Bryan
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