-l { single | double | none },
--layout { single | double | none }
Set default layout options for a sheet:
single
One page per sheet.
double
Two pages per sheet, landscape orientation (one page on
the left half, one page on the right half).
none
No auto-layout, mask-scan-points may individually be
specified.
Using single or double automatically sets
corresponding --mask-scan-points. The default is single.
-start sheet, --start-sheet
start-sheet
Number of first sheet to process in multi-sheet mode.
(default: 1)
-end sheet, --end-sheet sheet
Number of last sheet to process in multi-sheet mode. -1
indicates processing until no more input file with the corresponding page
number is available (default: -1)
-# sheet-range, --sheet
sheet-range
Optionally specifies which sheets to process in the range
between start-sheet and end-sheet.
-x sheet-range, --exclude
sheet-range
Excludes sheets from processing in the range between
start-sheet and end-sheet.
--pre-rotate { -90 | 90 }
Rotates the whole image clockwise (90) or
anti-clockwise (-90) before any other processing.
--post-rotate { -90 | 90 }
Rotates the whole image clockwise (90) or
anti-clockwise (-90) after any other processing.
-M { v | h | v,h },
--pre-mirror { v | h | v,h }
Mirror the image, after possible pre-rotation. Either
v (for vertical mirroring), h (for horizontal mirroring) or
v,h (for both) can be specified.
--post-mirror { v | h | v,h }
Mirror the image, after any other processing except
possible post-rotation. Either v (for vertical mirroring), h
(for horizontal mirroring) or v,h (for both) can be specified.
--pre-shift h,v
Shift the image before further processing. Values for
h (horizontal shift) and v (vertical shift) can either be
positive or negative.
--post-shift h,v
Shift the image after other processing. Values for
h (horizontal shift) and v (vertical shift) can either be
positive or negative.
--pre-wipe
left,top,right,bottom
Manually wipe out an area before further processing. Any
pixel in a wiped area will be set to white. Multiple areas to be wiped may be
specified by multiple occurrences of this options.
--post-wipe
left,top,right,bottom
Manually wipe out an area after processing. Any pixel in
a wiped area will be set to white. Multiple areas to be wiped may be specified
by multiple occurrences of this options.
--pre-border
left,top,right,bottom
Clear the border-area of the sheet before further
processing. Any pixel in the border area will be set to white.
--post-border
left,top,right,bottom
Clear the border-area of the sheet after other
processing. Any pixel in the border area will be set to white.
--pre-mask
x1,y1,x2,y2
Specify masks to apply before any other processing. Any
pixel outside a mask will be set to white, unless another mask includes this
pixel.
Only pixels inside a mask will remain. Multiple masks may be
specified. No deskewing will be applied to the masks specified by
--pre-mask.
-s { width,height | size-name
}, --size { width,height | size-name
}
Change the sheet size before other processing is applied.
Content on the sheet gets zoomed to fit to the appropriate size, but the
aspect ratio is preserved. Instead, if the sheet's aspect ratio changes, the
zoomed content gets centered on the sheet.
Possible values for size-name are: a5, a4,
a3, letter, legal. All size names can also be applied
in rotated landscape orientation, use a4-landscape,
letter-landscape etc.
--post-size { width,height |
size-name }
Change the sheet size preserving the content's aspect
ratio after other processing steps are applied.
--stretch { width,height |
size-name }
Change the sheet size before other processing is applied.
Content on the sheet gets stretched to the specified size, possibly changing
the aspect ratio.
--post-stretch { width,height |
size-name }
Change the sheet size after other processing is applied.
Content on the sheet gets stretched to the specified size, possibly changing
the aspect ratio.
-z factor, --zoom factor
Change the sheet size according to the given factor
before other processing is done.
--post-zoom factor
Change the sheet size according to the given factor after
processing is done.
-bn { v | h | v,h },
--blackfilter-scan-direction { v | h | v,h }
Directions in which to search for solidly black areas.
Either v (for vertical mirroring), h (for horizontal mirroring)
or v,h (for both) can be specified.
-bs { size | h-size,v-size },
--blackfilter-scan-size { size |
h-size,v-size }
Width of virtual bar used for mask detection. Two values
may be specified to individually set horizontal and vertical size. (default:
20,20)
-bd { depth | h-depth,v-depth
}, --blackfilter-scan-depth { depth |
h-depth,v-depth }
Size of virtual bar used for black area detection.
(default: 500,500)
-bp { step | h-step,v-step },
--blackfilter-scan-step { step |
h-step,v-step }
Steps to move virtual bar for black area detection.
(default: 5,5)
-bt threshold, --blackfilter-scan-threshold
threshold
Ratio of dark pixels above which a black area gets
detected. (default: 0.95).
-bx
left,top,right,bottom,
--blackfilter-scan-exclude
left,top,right,bottom
Area on which the blackfilter should not operate. This
can be useful to prevent the blackfilter from working on inner page content.
May be specified multiple times to set more than one area.
-bi intensity, --blackfilter-intensity
intensity
Intensity with which to delete black areas. Larger values
will leave less noise-pixels around former black areas, but may delete page
content. (default: 20)
-ni intensity, -noisefilter-intensity
intensity
Intensity with which to delete individual pixels or tiny
clusters of pixels. Any cluster which only contains intensity dark
pixels together will be deleted. (default: 4)
-ls { size | h-size,v-size },
--blurfilter-size { size | h-size,v-size
}
Size of blurfilter area to search for "lonely"
clusters of pixels. (default: 100,100)
-lp { step | h-step,v-step },
--blurfilter-step { step | h-step,v-step
}
Size of "blurring" steps in each direction.
(default: 50,50)
-li ratio, --blurfilter-intensity
ratio
Relative intensity with which to delete tiny clusters of
pixels. Any blurred area which contains at most the ratio of dark
pixels will be cleared. (default: 0.01)
-gs { size | h-size,v-size },
--grayfilter-size { size | h-size,v-size
}
Size of grayfilter mask to search for
"gray-only" areas of pixels. (default: 50,50)
-gp { step | h-step,v-step },
--grayfilter-step { step | h-step,v-step
}
Size of steps moving the grayfilter mask in each
direction. (default: 20,20)
-gt ratio, --grayfilter-threshold
ratio
Relative intensity of grayness which is accepted before
clearing the grayfilter mask in cases where no black pixel is found in the
mask. (default: 0.5)
-p x,y, --mask-scan-point
x,y
Manually set starting point for mask-detection. Multiple
--mask-scan-point options may be specified to detect multiple
masks.
-m
x1,y1,x2,y2, --mask
x1,y1,x2,y2
Manually add a mask, in addition to masks automatically
detected around the
--mask-scan-point coordinates (unless
--no-mask-scan is specified).
Any pixel outside a mask will be set to white, unless another mask
covers this pixel.
-mn { v | h | v,h },
--mask-scan-direction { v | h | v,h }
Directions in which to search for mask borders, starting
from --mask-scan-point coordinates. Either v (for vertical mirroring),
h (for horizontal mirroring) or v,h (for both) can be specified.
(default: h, as v may cut text- paragraphs on single-page
sheets)
-ms { size | h-size,v-size },
--mask-scan-size { size | h-size,v-size
}
Width of the virtual bar used for mask detection. Two
values may be specified to individually set horizontal and vertical size.
(default: 50,50)
-md { depth | h-depth,v-depth
}, --mask-scan-depth { depth |
h-depth,v-depth }
Height of the virtual bar used for mask detection.
(default: -1,-1, using the total width or height of the sheet)
-mp { step | h-step,v-step },
--mask-scan-step { step | h-step,v-step
}
Steps to move the virtual bar for mask detection.
(default: 5,5)
-mt { threshold |
h-threshold,v-threshold }, --mask-scan-threshold
{ threshold | h-threshold,v-threshold }
Ratio of dark pixels below which an edge gets detected,
relative to maximum blackness when counting from the start coordinate heading
towards one edge. (default: 0.1)
-mm w,h, --mask-scan-minimum
w,h
Minimum allowed size of an auto-detected mask. Masks
detected below this size will be ignored and set to the size specified by
mask-scan-maximum. (default: 100,100)
-mM w,h, --mask-scan-maximum
w,h
Maximum allowed size of an auto-detected mask. Masks
detected above this size will be shrunk to the maximum value, each direction
individually. (default: sheet size, or page size derived from --layout
option)
-mc color, --mask-color color
Color value with which to wipe out pixels not covered by
any mask. Maybe useful for testing in order to visualize the effect of
masking. (Note that an RGB-value is expected: R*65536 + G*256 + B.)
-dn { left | top | right |
bottom },..., --deskew-scan-direction { left |
top | right | bottom },...
Edges from which to scan for rotation. Each edge of a
mask can be used to detect the mask's rotation. If multiple edges are
specified, the average value will be used, unless the statistical deviation
exceeds --deskew-scan-deviation. Use left for scanning from the
left edge, top for scanning from the top edge, right for
scanning from the right edge, bottom for scanning from the bottom.
Multiple directions can be separated by commas. (default:
left,right)
-ds pixels, --deskew-scan-size
pixels
Size of virtual line for rotation detection. (default:
1500)
-dd ratio, --deskew-scan-depth
ratio
Amount of dark pixels to accumulate until scanning is
stopped, relative to scan-bar size. (default: 0.5)
-dr degrees, --deskew-scan-range
degrees
Range in which to search for rotation, from
-degrees to +degrees rotation. (default: 5.0)
-dp degrees, --deskew-scan-step
degrees
Steps between single rotation-angle detections. Lower
numbers lead to better results but slow down processing. (default:
0.1)
-dv deviation, --deskew-scan-deviation
deviation
Maximum statistical deviation allowed among the results
from detected edges. No rotation if exceeded. (default: 1.0)
-W
left,top,right,bottom,
--wipe
left,top,right,bottom
Manually wipe out an area. Any pixel in a wiped area will
be set to white. Multiple --wipe areas may be specified. This is
applied after deskewing and before automatic border-scan.
-mw { size | left,right },
--middle-wipe { size | left,right }
If --layout is set to double, this may
specify the size of a middle area to wipe out between the two pages on the
sheet. This may be useful if the blackfilter fails to remove some black areas
(e.g. resulting from photo-copying in the middle between two pages).
-B
left,top,right,bottom,
--border
left,top,right,bottom
Manually add a border. Any pixel in the border area will
be set to white. This is applied after deskewing and before automatic
border-scan.
-Bn { v | h | v,h },
--border-scan-direction { v | h | v,h }
Directions in which to search for outer border. Either
v (for vertical mirroring), h (for horizontal mirroring) or
v,h (for both) can be specified. (default: v)
-Bs { size | h-size,v-size },
--border-scan-size { size | h-size,v-size
}
Width of virtual bar used for border detection. Two
values may be specified to individually set horizontal and vertical size.
(default: 5,5)
-Bp { step | h-step,v-step },
--border-scan-step { step | h-step,v-step
}
Steps to move virtual bar for border detection. (default:
5,5)
-Bt threshold, --border-scan-threshold
threshold
Absolute number of dark pixels covered by the border-scan
mask above which a border is detected. (default: 5)
-Ba { left | top | right |
bottom }, --border-align { left | top |
right | bottom }
Direction where to shift the detected border-area. Use
--border-margin to specify horizontal and vertical distances to be kept
from the sheet-edge. (default: none)
-Bm vertical,horizontal,
--border-margin vertical,horizontal
Distance to keep from the sheet edge when aligning a
border area. May use measurement suffices such as cm, in.
-w threshold, --white-threshold
threshold
Brightness ratio above which a pixel is considered white.
(default: 0.9)
-b threshold, --black-threshold
threshold
Brightness ratio below which a pixel is considered black
(non-gray). This is used by the gray-filter. This value is also used when
converting a grayscale image to black-and-white mode (default:
0.33)
-ip { 1 | 2 }, --input-pages {
1 | 2 }
If 2 is specified, read two input images instead
of one and internally combine them to a doubled-layout sheet before further
processing. Before internally combining, --pre-rotation is optionally
applied individually to both input images as the very first processing
steps.
-op { 1 | 2 }, --output-pages {
1 | 2 }
If 2 is specified, write two output images instead
of one, as a result of splitting a doubled-layout sheet after processing.
After splitting the sheet, --post-rotation is optionally applied
individually to both output images as the very last processing step.
-S { width,height | size-name
}, --sheet-size { width,height |
size-name }
Force a fix sheet size. Usually, the sheet size is
determined by the input image size (if input-pages=1), or by the double
size of the first page in a two-page input set (if input-pages=2). If
the input image is smaller than the size specified here, it will appear
centered and surrounded with a white border on the sheet. If the input image
is bigger, it will be centered and the edges will be cropped. This option may
also be helpful to get regular sized output images if the input image sizes
differ. Standard size-names like a4-landscape, letter, etc. may
be used (see --size). (default: as in input file)
--sheet-background { black | white }
Sets a color with which the sheet is filled before any
image is loaded and placed onto it. This can be useful when the sheet size and
the image size differ.
--no-blackfilter sheet-range
Disables black area scan. Individual sheet indices can be
specified.
--no-noisefilter sheet-range
Disables the noisefilter. Individual sheet indices can be
specified.
--no-blurfilter sheet-range
Disables the blurfilter. Individual sheet indices can be
specified.
--no-grayfilter sheet-range
Disables the grayfilter. Individual sheet indices can be
specified.
--no-mask-scan sheet-range
Disables mask-detection. Masks explicitly set by
--mask will still have effect. Individual sheet indices can be
specified.
--no-mask-center sheet-range
Disables auto-centering of each mask. Auto-centering is
performed by default if the --layout option has been set. Individual
sheet indices can be specified.
--no-deskew sheet-range
Disables deskewing. Individual sheet indices can be
specified.
--no-wipe sheet-range
Disables explicit wipe-areas. This means the effect of
parameter --wipe can be disabled individually per sheet.
--no-border sheet-range
Disables explicitly set borders. This means the effect of
parameter --border can be disabled individually per sheet.
--no-border-scan sheet-range
Disables border-scanning from the edges of the sheet.
Individual sheet indices can be specified.
--no-border-align sheet-range
Disables aligning of the area detected by border-scanning
(see --border-align). Individual sheet indices can be specified.
-n sheet-range, --no-processing
sheet-range
Do not perform any processing on a sheet except pre/post
rotating and mirroring, and file-depth conversions on saving. This option has
the same effect as setting all --no-xxx options together. Individual
sheet indices can be specified.
--interpolate { nearest | linear |
cubic }
Set the interpolation function used for deskewing and
stretching. The cubic option provides the best image quality, while
nearest is the fastest. (default: cubic)
--no-multi-pages
Disable multi-page processing even if the input filename
contains a % (usually indicating the start of a placeholder for the page
counter).
--dpi dpi
Dots per inch used for conversion of measured size
values, like e.g. 21cm,27.9cm. Mind that this parameter should occur
before specifying any size value with measurement suffix. (default:
300)
-t { pbm | pgm | ppm }, --type
{ pbm | pgm> | ppm }
Output file type (and bit depth). If not specified, the
one with the same, or closest, pixel format as the original input files will
be used.
pbm
Portable Bit Map, monochrome raw image.
pgm
Portable Grayscale Map, 8-bit per pixel grayscale raw
image.
ppm
Portable Pixel Map, 24-bit per pixel RGB raw image.
-T, --test-only
Do not write any output. May be useful in combination
with --verbose to get information about the input.
-si nr, --start-input nr
Set the first page number to substitute for '%d' in input
filenames. Every time the input file sequence is repeated, this number gets
increased by 1. (default: (startsheet-1)*inputpages+1)
-so nr, --start-output nr
Set the first page number to substitute for '%d' in
output filenames. Every time the output file sequence is repeated, this number
gets increased by 1. (default: (startsheet-1)*outputpages+1)
--insert-blank nr [,nr...]
Use blank input instead of an input file from the input
file sequence at the specified index-positions. The input file sequence will
be interrupted temporarily and will continue with the next input file
afterwards. This can be useful to insert blank content into a sequence of
input images.
--replace-blank nr [,nr...]
Like --insert-blank, but the input images at the
specified index positions get replaced with blank content and thus will be
ignored.
--overwrite
Allow overwriting existing files. Otherwise the program
terminates with an error if an output file to be written already exists.
-q, --quiet
Quiet mode, no output at all.
-v, --verbose
Verbose output, more info messages.
-vv
Even more verbose output, show parameter settings before
processing.
-V, --version
Output version and build information.