{"id":11102,"date":"2006-04-30T09:54:22","date_gmt":"2006-04-30T09:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/04\/scanning-the-past.html"},"modified":"2006-04-30T09:54:22","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T09:54:22","slug":"scanning_the_past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/30\/scanning_the_past\/","title":{"rendered":"Scanning the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired News reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/technology\/0,70740-0.html\">Kodak&#8217;s efforts<\/a> to develop high-volume scanning technology for old prints.  These machines analyze the images, then categorize them &amp; assign metadata by recognizing faces, print size &amp; shape, handwriting, and more.  Sounds like a cool &amp; fairly painless way to get shoeboxes full of snapshots into a computer.<br \/>\nThis reminds me of a little-known but powerful feature in Photoshop.  The Crop &amp; Straighten Photos command (&#8220;Lift &amp; Separate&#8221; to its friends) is found under File-&gt;Automate in Photoshop CS and above.  The command takes a bunch of photos scanned at once (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/images\/Crop-Straighten-Before.html\">like this<\/a>) and turn each into a separate cropped, rotated image (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/images\/Crop-Straighten-After.html\">like this<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired News reports on Kodak&#8217;s efforts to develop high-volume scanning technology for old prints. These machines analyze the images, then categorize them &amp; assign metadata by recognizing faces, print size &amp; shape, handwriting, and more. Sounds like a cool &amp; fairly painless way to get shoeboxes full of snapshots into a computer. This reminds me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11102"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}