Detecting Blank Page

Do you have an example of how I can detect blank pages using DOTNET? I have reviewed the forum posts and read the documentation however it seems to indicate that the GetRegion only gets the number of pixels in a region and not necessairly the number of black pixels. How can I get a percentage of just the number of black pixels in a Bitmap object without hard counting them? Thanks

Hi.  I am currently using the code in this demo to do white/black page detection.  We are using this to split scanned in documents, based on where the white pages are. 

It works great except for one thing.  Every time (or two)  that i run .AddColorRgbRangeToRegion, my service seems to suck up about an extra meg of Ram.  This service is potentially processing many documents a minute, that are all multi paged.  This quickly adds up to my service hogging as much ram as is available.

I have used .MakeRegionEmpty() to try and regain some of this memory, but to no avail.  I also notice that if i run the sample application over and over, i see this same ramping of memory usage. 

Is there any way to regain the memory within the code, as shutting down the service for each document isnt really an option.

Make sure that if you are freeing any images or regions tht you call GC.Collect and GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers to ensure that the garbage collector has freed all objects marked for deletion.

I think i have already tried what you have suggested, yet i cannot seem to get the memory back.  Here is the code :

Try
    If f.Exists(Me.strSrcFile) Then
                lRaster = codecs.Load(strSrcFile)
                lRasterView.Image = lRaster
                For i = 1 To lRasterView.Image.PageCount
                    With lRasterView.Image
                        .Page = i
                        .AddColorRgbRangeToRegion(lowerWhite, upperWhite, RasterRegionCombineMode.SetNot)
                        If .CalculateRegionArea / (.ImageWidth * .ImageHeight) < thisThresh Then                     
                            'white page, add to splitPages arrays here
                        End If
                        .MakeRegionEmpty()
                     End With
                    GC.Collect()
                    GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers()
                Next
       End If
           Return alSplitPages
Catch ex As Exception
            Throw
Finally
            upperWhite = Nothing
            lowerWhite = Nothing

            lRasterView.Image.RemoveAllPages()
            lRasterView.Image.Dispose()
            lRasterView.Image = Nothing
            If lRaster.PageCount > 0 Then lRaster.RemoveAllPages()

            codecs = Nothing
            GC.Collect()
            GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers()
        End Try

For each page of the raster image, after i have calculated the area, i run a .MakeRegionEmpty(which i beleive frees the region, as you mentioned), as well as some garbage collection.  On top of this, i am doing garbage collection in the Finally, and disposing of the Image, and the image viewer. 

What am i missing?

I used the attached application to test this which basically just runs the same image 1000 times in a loop. On my end, the memory pretty much remains the same throughout the entire process. What are you using to monitor the memory? Also, have you tried updating to the latest dll's?

I tried running the example code you sent.  It has the same memory
leak issue.  It processed the image 136 times then ran out of
virtual memory space and I shut it down.  Windows Task Manager
showed that it was using over 350 Mb of memory.  I must need to update my dll's as you mentioned.  Where do I go to get these?

Thanks.

It appears you have a license for the product so you should be able to log into our support site and download the most recent patch.

Dear Support,

      I have Downloaded the sample and try to lad a document

i t displays an error

An unhandled exception of type 'Leadtools.RasterException' occurred in leadtools.dll

Additional information: Error in the application

How can i handle

Regards

Nagarjuna

 

When does this error occur? Also, make sure you are compiling the project with the latest dll's.

Since the original question and answer is already a couple of years old, i would like to know, is the above attached example by Otis still the way to go for detecting blank pages?

Because the LEADTOOLS Document Imaging SDK v.15 feature list specifies a "Blank Page Detector" function (http://www.leadtools.com/SDK/Image%20Processing/functions/Blank%20Page%20Detector/)

And even though Otis' example is pretty straight-forward, because this functionality is listed as a separate feature, i expected there to be a method in the SDK which takes a page and handles all this for me (the calculation and evaluating whether the page is blank), perhaps parameterized with a few options to tweak the detection :)

Hello,

In LEADTOOLS v15, you can detect whether an image is a blank page by using the BlankPageDetectorCommand Class.
For more information about the BlankPageDetectorCommand Class, please read the following topic in the LEADTOOLS .Net documentation:
- BlankPageDetectorCommand Class.

Thanks,
Maen Badwan
LEADTOOLS Technical Support

Thank you, exactly what i was looking for.

Can't believe i didn't find it myself in the documentation, just searching for 'blank' returns what i was looking for..:$

I have created a small demo in Visual Studio 6.0 using our C DLLS that simply provides a UI to the L_BlankPageDetectorBitmap.  It allows you to load an image (specifying a page too) then setting the options of the function (minus the user margins) and seeing what the return values are for the function.

This should help in determining what settings to use for different types of images.