May 19 2017, 20:48

Here’s a niche for those who want to create a useful utility over the weekend.

Every mobile has apps that allow you to photograph a sheet of paper and automatically correct the perspective. There seems to be no such app for Windows or on the web.

There is only one that allows doing it interactively, not automatically. But it’s extremely buggy. There is a plugin for Lightwave, but LW is paid. There’s ImageMagick, which can fix the perspective based on a template, but it uses the command line and you need to specify the trapezoid in coordinates. It would already be useful if you could click this trapezoid once with a mouse. But ideally, it should detect it automatically.

If someone were to create a simple interface for this ImageMagick and then publish it on the web, it would be a useful tool. You won’t make money off it, but a student would learn something ) @[100001539238582:2048:Dmitry Voloshin] to your inspiration box, just in case it comes in handy.

Look, they almost did it: http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/unperspective/index.php