[magick-users] What is DeskewImage meant to do?

[Vasile Gaburici]

I see that this a new addition to ImageMagick, since my
Fedora-provided 6.3.8.1 doesn't have it. Before I spend my time with
the CVS version of ImageMagick, may I inquire what algorithm is used
for deskewing?

There are already a couple of tools based on the Radon transform,
namely the (seemingly abandoned) pagetools
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/pagetools/], and a new gimp plugin
based on those [http://www.cubewano.org/gimp-deskew-plugin/].

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:23 PM,
<duc.sequere.aut.de.via.decede at imagemagick.org> wrote:
>> Is is supposed do some auto-magic transform like Adobe Acrobat's?
>
> Deskew rotates the image to straighten it.  It might be used, for example,
> to straighten on image after it is scanned.
>