Re: Software that offers "rotate to line?" (for scanning)

From	Tom Stiller <tom_stiller@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Software that offers "rotate to line?" (for scanning)
Date	2011-03-06 13:46 -0500
Organization	Old Men With Beards
Message-ID	<tom_stiller-F29FE9.13465706032011@News.Individual.NET> (permalink)
References	<iku5e4$hdb$1@reader1.panix.com>

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In article <iku5e4$hdb$1@reader1.panix.com>,
 arnstein@panix.com (David Arnstein) wrote:

> I am looking for software that offers a particular feature "rotate to
> line." I would like to draw display an image, and draw a line onto
> that image using my mouse. The software would then rotate the image by
> an amount that makes the line perfectly horizontal.
> 
> This feature is useful for fixing up scanned images.
> 
> I have Pixelmator, but I don't think it offers this feature. I could
> not find this in iPhoto either.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions!

The bundled Image Capture will do this.  In fact, if you have a flatbed 
scanner, you can direct it to separate and align multiple images at 
once.  I've used it to scan a stack of old photos.

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Software that offers "rotate to line?" (for scanning) arnstein@panix.com (David Arnstein) - 2011-03-05 20:11 +0000
  Re: Software that offers "rotate to line?" (for scanning) nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-03-05 15:53 -0800
    Re: Software that offers "rotate to line?" (for scanning) Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-03-05 20:58 +0000
      Re: Software that offers "rotate to line?" (for scanning) dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2011-03-06 07:41 +0000
  Re: Software that offers "rotate to line?" (for scanning) Robert Haar <bobhaar@comcast.net> - 2011-03-05 16:43 -0500
  Re: Software that offers "rotate to line?" (for scanning) Malcolm <malcolm@invalid> - 2011-03-05 18:58 -0500
  Re: Software that offers "rotate to line?" (for scanning) Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2011-03-05 19:11 -0800
  Re: Software that offers "rotate to line?" (for scanning) sbt <dogbreath@chaseabone.com.invalid> - 2011-03-05 19:26 -0800
  Re: Software that offers "rotate to line?" (for scanning) Tom Stiller <tom_stiller@yahoo.com> - 2011-03-06 13:46 -0500
    Re: Software that offers "rotate to line?" (for scanning) arnstein@panix.com (David Arnstein) - 2011-03-07 04:55 +0000
      Re: Software that offers "rotate to line?" (for scanning) Tom Stiller <tom_stiller@yahoo.com> - 2011-03-07 06:25 -0500
      Re: Software that offers "rotate to line?" (for scanning) Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2011-03-08 20:11 +0000
        Re: Software that offers "rotate to line?" (for scanning) John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2011-03-08 13:36 -0800
  Re: Software that offers "rotate to line?" (for scanning) gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2011-03-08 12:25 -0800

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