Comicstrip Extract individual frames of a comic book
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Extract individual frames of a comic book Comicstrip is a Linux utility that can extract individual frames of a comic book (cbz files).What is it?While it is easy to read comic books on a regular PC, it is much more inconvenient to do so on a PDA because of its small screen size - one typically ends up scrolling around the whole page to read it. This application breaks down each page of a comic book into individual frames (i.e. each frame becomes an individual page) which can then be conveniently viewed on small-screen devices like PDAs. It can process a single image file or a whole comic book file (only cbz files are supported currently).Installation: Copy the comicstrip file to a directory in your PATH.Basic Terminology Used:A typical page of a comic book consists of a number of frames separated byhorizontal/vertical white spaces called gutters. The title page might contain anadditional heading in the beginning. The height of each frame in a page (indeedin all pages of a book) are more-or-less the same. The frame widths, however,usually differ.A comic book is usually a compressed archive of images with differentextensions to indicate the type of compression. Common formats include .cbz(which is simply a zip archive of images) and .cbr (which is an RAR archive ofimages). As mentioned above, comicstrip supports only .cbz files currently.Usage:Basic Invocation: comicstrip.py The comicstrip application is, at the moment, a command line application.All parameters are passed in via command line parameters. A GUI front-end isplanned down the line to make the application easier to use.Valid Options are:--version Show program's version number and exit.-h, --help Show a brief help message and exit.-q, --quiet Don't print progress messages to stdout . By default a single dot is printed for every page processed. Every 5th page a page number is displayed (....5....10...etc)-d, --debug Enable debug prints . Used only for debugging. Ordinary users won't need to enable this. It would be helpful to enable '-q' when using the -d option so that the regular progress display does not interfere with the debug output (and vice versa).-f FILE, --file=FILE Name of the input file. Mandatory parameter This could be the name of an image file or the name of a .cbz file. comicstrip supports the image formats supported by the Python Imaging Library.--prefix=PREFIX Prefix for output files. Mandatory parameter The individual frames are saved to files with names of the form: < prefix >00.jpg, < prefix >01.jpg < prefix >02.jpg ... The number of leading zeroes is automatically adjusted depending on the number of output frames. If you want to save the output files into a particular directory just add the directory prefix to the file prefix (e.g. --prefix /tmp/foo-)--left-ignore=PIXELS How much of the left margin to ignore when detecting rows Sometimes (especially for scanned comics) the edges in the middle of a page tend to have a shadow all along it, making the gutter "non white". This interferes with the gutter detection algorithm and prevents a gutter from being successfully detected. This parameter tells the application how much many pixels on the left side should be ignored when detecting gutters. Note: This doesn't mean the pixels on the left of the margin are discarded in the final output - it just means that they are not considered during gutter detection.--right-ignore=PIXELS How much of the right margin to ignore when detecting rows . Same as "--left-ignore" except that this is for the right side.--firstpage=PGFILENAME Name of the title page in comic archive file. The first page of a comic archive could be different from other pages in that it might have a heading on top of the page (which needs to be skipped). This parameter tells the application the name of the first page if the input file is a comic book archive. Note: This parameter is ignored if the input file is a single image file and not a comic book archive.--firstpg-row=PIXELS From which line of the first page should the processing start This parameter tells the application whether or not there is a title in the first page and, if so, how many pixels to skip to ignore the title. Without this parameter the processing might stop at the title itself instead of skipping over it.--startrow=PIXELS From which line of the each page (other than the first page) should the processing start For scanned comics, the gutter on the top of the page might have a shadow along it, thus interfering with the gutter processing algorithm. This parameter tells the application how many pixels to skip when detecting rows in a page, thus allowing the algorithm to skip over the shadow.--glob=GLOB A glob expression to select files to be processed from the book. (Not required if a file list is provided.) File names of pages of a comic book archive typically have a pattern. Instead of specifying each page by name, this parameter allows a glob pattern to be specified (e.g. --glob '*.jpg'). Remember to protect the glob expression in quotes to prevent file expansion in the shell.--gutter-width=WIDTH Minimum width of the gutter --min-width=WIDTH Minimum width of a frame A more accurate value speeds up the frame extraction algorithm--min-height=HEIGHT Minimum height of a frame A more accurate value speeds up the frame extraction algorithmpgfile1, pgfile2, ... is a list of the names of the page files in the comic bookarchive. These can be left out if the "--glob" parameter is supplied. On theother hand, if you wish to extract only a few pages of a comic book archive,then they can be specified on the command line.Of course, for single page image files, this list is empty. Requirements: · Python · PIL Limitations: · The application might not be able to successfully extract frames from a (slightly) rotated page (i.e. the page is not entirely horizontal). · In some pages, some images "overflow" into the gutter space (e.g. some speech bubbles overflow into the vertical gutter). In such cases the application will not be able to successfully separate the two frames. If it is the vertical · gutter that is "occupied" then the two adjacent frames will be extracted as one. · If, however, the horizontal gutter is "occupied" then the two rows will be · treated as one! · If the gutters in a page are not "clean" (i.e. they contain some "random", dark pixels - typical in some scanned images of old comics) then they too might negatively impact the gutter processing algorithm. For images where the gutter is "clean" (all "light" colors) there shouldn't be any problems.

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