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Batch Crop, Join And Re-Size?

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 Posted 12/05/2012  02:35 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add bibd to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Does anyone know of (preferably free) software to take consecutive images (say obverse and reverse of a coin), identify the background and crop it away (leaving coins only), join the cropped images side-by-side, re-size (say to under 100kb), and automate all this in a batch process?

In other words, do the big sellers or coin photographers have any tricks they're willing to share? I spend too much time exporting "collages" in Picasa one-by-one.

Thanks in advance.
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 Posted 12/05/2012  11:24 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Interesting question.

The only batch jobs I have done are converting, compressing, or resizing groups of individual files. I have always done cropping and compositing by hand.
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 Posted 12/06/2012  02:45 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bibd to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I would guess that (these days) the computer can be trained to identify a coin and auto-crop it. After all, it can identify faces.

I might be mis-remembering this funny incident, but I vaguely recall my camera auto-detecting Lincoln's face one time. Maybe it helped minimize the red-eye from Abe!
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cameras can auto-detect a face, but I don't think they are not always correct, and designs on coins vary greatly so it may have even more trouble with coins and finding the edge.
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