L_HolePunchRemoveBitmap

Summary

Finds and removes hole punches.

Syntax

L_LTIMGCOR_API L_INT L_HolePunchRemoveBitmap(pBitmap, pHolePunch, pfnCallback, pUserData, uFlags)

Parameters

pBITMAPHANDLE pBitmap

Pointer to the bitmap handle referencing the bitmap from which to remove hole punches.

pHOLEPUNCH pHolePunch

Pointer to the HOLEPUNCH structure that LEADTOOLS uses to remove hole punches.

HOLEPUNCHREMOVECALLBACK pfnCallback

Optional callback function for additional processing.

• If you do not provide a callback function, use NULL as the value of this parameter.
• If you do provide a callback function, use the function pointer as the value of this parameter.

The callback function must adhere to the function prototype described in HOLEPUNCHREMOVECALLBACK Function.

L_VOID *pUserData

Void pointer that you can use to pass one or more additional parameters that the callback function needs.

To use this feature, assign a value to a variable or create a structure that contains as many fields as you need. Then, in this parameter, pass the address of the variable or structure, casting it to L_VOID *. The callback function, which receives the address in its own pUserData parameter, can cast it to a pointer of the appropriate data type to access your variable or structure.

If the additional parameters are not needed, you can pass NULL in this parameter.

L_UINT32 uFlags

A flag that determine the method used to detect the Hole punch, possible values are:

Returns

Comments

This function detects and removes hole punch marks that are common in scanned documents.

The behavior of this function can be modified by overriding HOLEPUNCHREMOVECALLBACK.

This function does not support signed data images. It returns the error code ERROR_SIGNED_DATA_NOT_SUPPORTED if a signed data image is passed to this function.

This function works only on 1-bit black and white images.

This function does not support 32-bit grayscale images. It returns the error code ERROR_GRAY32_UNSUPPORTED if a 32-bit grayscale image is passed to this function.

Hole punch configurations may consist of 2 or more holes.

If a region is selected, only the selected region will be changed by this function. If no region is selected, the whole image will be processed.

Before calling this function, ensure that the hole punch is free of any other stray marks. If you do not, L_HolePunchRemoveBitmap will not recognize the hole.

For example, the below image must have the vertical line removed. You can use L_LineRemoveBitmap to remove any horizontal or vertical lines from the image. Use other Document Cleanup functions to remove other imaging artifacts such as dots, blobs, borders, inverted text, bumps and nicks. This will have the added benefit of making your image smaller when compressed.

Once cleaned, L_HolePunchRemoveBitmap will be able to identify and remove the hole punch mark:

View additional platform support for this Hole Punch Remove function.

Required DLLs and Libraries

• LTIMGCOR
• For a listing of the exact DLLs and Libraries needed, based on the toolkit version, refer to Files To Be Included With Your Application.

Platforms

Win32, x64, Linux.

See Also

Functions

• HOLEPUNCHREMOVECALLBACK
• L_SmoothBitmap
• L_LineRemoveBitmap
• L_AutoLineRemove
• L_BorderRemoveBitmap
• L_DotRemoveBitmap
• L_InvertedTextBitmap
• L_HolesRemovalBitmapRgn
• L_AutoBinarizeBitmap
• L_DynamicBinaryBitmap
• L_AutoBinaryBitmap
• L_InvertedPageBitmap

Topics

• Cleaning Up 1-Bit Images

Example

This example returns a windows region corresponding to hole punches.
For the example, a windows region is returned and converted to a LEAD region
but in practice it would easier and faster to just return a LEAD region.
The HOLEPUNCH_USE_DPI flag instructs the API to determine the size of the hole punches based on the image DPI
The image is modified.
A callback is used to display information about each hole punch removed.
The callback does NOT return a region.

L_INT EXT_CALLBACK HolePunchRemoveCB(HRGN hRgn, PRECT pBoundingRect, L_INT32 iHoleIndex, L_INT32 iHoleTotalCount, L_INT32 iWhiteCount, L_INT32 iBlackCount, L_VOID* pUserData) 
{ 
   UNREFERENCED_PARAMETER(pUserData); 
 
   L_TCHAR szMsg[200]; 
   RECT rcRect; 
 
   GetRgnBox(hRgn, &rcRect); 
   wsprintf(szMsg, TEXT("Region Bounds: left=%d, right=%d, top=%d, bottom=%d\n"), rcRect.left, rcRect.right, rcRect.top, rcRect.bottom); 
   OutputDebugString(szMsg); 
   DeleteObject(hRgn); 
 
   wsprintf(szMsg, 
      TEXT("Bounds[%d,%d][%d,%d]\tHole[%d] of [%d]\tWhiteCount[%d]\tBlackCount[%d]\n"), 
      pBoundingRect->left, 
      pBoundingRect->top, 
      pBoundingRect->right, 
      pBoundingRect->bottom, 
      iHoleIndex, 
      iHoleTotalCount, 
      iWhiteCount, 
      iBlackCount); 
   OutputDebugString(szMsg); 
 
   return SUCCESS_REMOVE; 
} 
 
L_INT HolePunchRemoveBitmapExample() 
{ 
   L_INT32        nRet; 
   HOLEPUNCH      hr; 
   BITMAPHANDLE   LeadBitmap; 
   BITMAPHANDLE   BitmapRegion; 
 
   /* Load the bitmap, keeping the bits per pixel of the file */ 
   nRet = L_LoadBitmap(MAKE_IMAGE_PATH(TEXT("Clean.tif")), &LeadBitmap, sizeof(BITMAPHANDLE), 0, ORDER_BGR, NULL, NULL); 
   if (nRet != SUCCESS) 
      return nRet; 
 
   memset(&BitmapRegion, 0, sizeof(BITMAPHANDLE)); 
 
   hr.uStructSize = sizeof(HOLEPUNCH); 
   hr.iLocation = HOLEPUNCH_LEFT; 
   hr.iMinHoleCount = 2; 
   hr.iMaxHoleCount = 4; 
   hr.pBitmapRegion = &BitmapRegion; 
   hr.uBitmapStructSize = sizeof(BITMAPHANDLE); 
 
   hr.uFlags = HOLEPUNCH_SINGLE_REGION | HOLEPUNCH_USE_DPI | HOLEPUNCH_USE_COUNT | HOLEPUNCH_USE_LOCATION | HOLEPUNCH_CALLBACK_REGION; 
 
   nRet = L_HolePunchRemoveBitmap(&LeadBitmap, &hr, HolePunchRemoveCB, NULL, 0); 
   if (nRet != SUCCESS) 
      return nRet; 
 
 
   RECT rectRgn; 
 
   GetRgnBox(hr.hRgn, &rectRgn); 
   if (!IsRectEmpty(&rectRgn)) 
   { 
      L_SetBitmapRgnHandle(&LeadBitmap, NULL, hr.hRgn, L_RGN_SET); 
      DeleteObject(hr.hRgn); 
      hr.hRgn = NULL; 
   } 
 
   return SUCCESS; 
}