straighten scanned text

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lykurg
Oct 17, 2007
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Hello,

in Acrobat there is an option to optimize scanned images which straighten the text. I searched in Photoshop CS3 but found no such option. I need to straighten my text before converting to a bitmap. Is this possible with Photoshop and if yes, how?

Thanks in advance

Lykurg
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TK
Toobi-Won Kenobi
Oct 17, 2007
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Hello,

in Acrobat there is an option to optimize scanned images which straighten the text. I searched in Photoshop CS3 but found no such option. I need to straighten my text before converting to a bitmap. Is this possible with Photoshop and if yes, how?

Thanks in advance

Lykurg

Is scanned text not already a bitmap or are you using OCR software? Have you tried the Transform tool (ctrl+T) to rotate the text/layer?

TWK
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lykurg
Oct 17, 2007
On 17 Okt., 11:17, "Toobi-Won Kenobi" <Toobi-won > wrote:
Is scanned text not already a bitmap or are you using OCR software? Have you tried the Transform tool (ctrl+T) to rotate the text/layer?

I scan the papers in grayscale because there are some images in it. Then I run an automatism, which cuts some black outer regions, sharpen the image and then transform the image to a bitmap and save it with an self-defined name. (And by the way, I don’t trust the software, which is delivered with the scanners that they convert to bitmap best.)

Because the angle of rotation is different to each page, I need an function which automatically detect the right transformation as in Acrobat.

Thanks, Lykurg
TK
Toobi-Won Kenobi
Oct 17, 2007
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On 17 Okt., 11:17, "Toobi-Won Kenobi" <Toobi-won > wrote:
Is scanned text not already a bitmap or are you using OCR software? Have you tried the Transform tool (ctrl+T) to rotate the text/layer?

I scan the papers in grayscale because there are some images in it. Then I run an automatism, which cuts some black outer regions, sharpen the image and then transform the image to a bitmap and save it with an self-defined name. (And by the way, I don’t trust the software, which is delivered with the scanners that they convert to bitmap best.)
Because the angle of rotation is different to each page, I need an function which automatically detect the right transformation as in Acrobat.

Thanks, Lykurg
Lykurg,

CS3 may not be the best application to do what you want to do, it is basically a bitmap edited program (with a little vector trown in), granted an extremely powerfull one. As you have discovered, Acrobat is probably the best app to use in your case. As the rotation differs between scans I doubt if an action (script maybe?) could be setup in PS to do what you want.

Regards

TWK

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