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Blank Page Detection

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:52 pm
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!

Thanks,
Bryan

Re: Blank Page Detection

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 4:56 pm
by xnview
If you have blank page, you don't make a convert?

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 5:06 pm
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