NAME¶
nearblack - nearblack convert nearly black/white borders to black
SYNOPSIS¶
nearblack [-of format] [-white | [-color c1,c2,c3...cn]*] [-near dist] [-nb non_black_pixels]
[-setalpha] [-setmask] [-o outfile] [-q] [-co "NAME=VALUE"]* infile
DESCRIPTION¶
This utility will scan an image and try to set all pixels that are nearly or
exactly black, white or one or more custom colors around the collar to black
or white. This is often used to 'fix up' lossy compressed airphotos so that
color pixels can be treated as transparent when mosaicking.
- -o outfile:
- The name of the output file to be created. Newly created files are created
with the HFA driver by default (Erdas Imagine - .img)
- -of format:
- (GDAL 1.8.0 or later) Select the output format. Use the short format name
(GTiff for GeoTIFF for examle).
- -co 'NAME=VALUE':
- (GDAL 1.8.0 or later) Passes a creation option to the output format
driver. Multiple -co options may be listed. See format specific
documentation for legal creation options for each format. Only valid when
creating a new file
- -white:
- Search for nearly white (255) pixels instead of nearly black pixels.
- -color c1,c2,c3...cn:
- (GDAL >= 1.9.0) Search for pixels near the specified color. May be
specified multiple times. When -color is specified, the pixels that are
considered as the collar are set to 0.
- -near dist:
- Select how far from black, white or custom colors the pixel values can be
and still considered near black, white or custom color. Defaults to
15.
- -nb non_black_pixels:
- number of non-black pixels that can be encountered before the giving up
search inwards. Defaults to 2.
- -setalpha:
- (GDAL 1.8.0 or later) Adds an alpha band if the output file is specified
and the input file has 3 bands, or sets the alpha band of the output file
if it is specified and the input file has 4 bands, or sets the alpha band
of the input file if it has 4 bands and no output file is specified. The
alpha band is set to 0 in the image collar and to 255 elsewhere.
- -setmask:
- (GDAL 1.8.0 or later) Adds a mask band to the output file, or adds a mask
band to the input file if it does not already have one and no output file
is specified. The mask band is set to 0 in the image collar and to 255
elsewhere.
- -q:
- (GDAL 1.8.0 or later) Suppress progress monitor and other non-error
output.
- infile:
- The input file. Any GDAL supported format, any number of bands, normally
8bit Byte bands.
The algorithm processes the image one scanline at a time. A scan 'in' is done
from either end setting pixels to black or white until at least
'non_black_pixels' pixels that are more than 'dist' gray levels away from
black, white or custom colors have been encountered at which point the scan
stops. The nearly black, white or custom color pixels are set to black or
white. The algorithm also scans from top to bottom and from bottom to top to
identify indentations in the top or bottom.
The processing is all done in 8bit (Bytes).
If the output file is omitted, the processed results will be written back to the
input file - which must support update.
AUTHORS¶
Frank Warmerdam warmerdam@pobox.com