tiff_findskew(1)

💖 tiff_findskew(1) 💖

ok bestie, so this is tiff_findskew from the General Commands Manual section, and it's literally the girl who tells you how crooked your scanned text is. no cap. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

tiff_findskew — determine text skew angle 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

tiff_findskew [-options] TIFF_file

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe: it reads a file in TIFF format as input, and then it writes out the skew angle — in degrees, as a floating-point decimal. that's it. that's the whole serve. 💅

and what even is the skew angle, you ask? bestie it's the angle by which the image must be rotated counterclockwise to obtain a normally oriented text with horizontal lines. so like, if your scanned page is sitting there all tilted and chaotic, this number is the amount you gotta spin it counterclockwise to get those lines sitting pretty and horizontal. main character alignment energy, honestly. ✨

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -options — okay so so far no options are implemented. literally none. it's giving minimalist. but in the future, tiff_findskew might accept options, so watch this space i guess 🙈
• TIFF_file — Name of a TIFF file containing a black/white bitmap. and btw the file should be readable by libtiff tools, so like... make sure it's actually a real one before you come for this program, fr fr. 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• libtiff(3) — go read that one too, it's the whole ecosystem, iykyk 🧚

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Copyright (C) 2005 by yet.</purl> wait— Copyright (C) 2005 by yet. 🍓

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this little icon was brought to you by the General Commands Manual, dated 7 April 2005 — like, vintage but still slaying, periodt. go find some skew angles and eat. 🔥💖