Manual Deskew (de-skew)

[fat chance]

I am looking for the manual de-skew option "draw a line" and rotate the page, I didn't see it in the features.

I did find an old post from 2016 which requests this feature: "De-skewing SOLVED" - the post is tagged as "SOLVED"?

Auto de-skew is a fine feature for freshly scanned images, but a manual method is a valid option for fine tuning auto de-skewed images, or aligning pages in existing documents.

Am I missing the command for this?
Has it not been added as a feature yet..?

[Willy Van Nuffel]

Hi,

I suppose you mean this thread:
https://forum.pdf-xchange.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=23762

Just an idea (in PDF-XChange Editor):
Instead of drawing a "Line", you can draw something similar to a line, by using the "Rectangle" tool.
A rectangle gives you the advantage that you can rotate it to the desired angle that corresponds to your text/image.
After this, you can simply read the current "Rotation"-value in the properties pane of the rectangle (View > Panes > Properties ¨Pane).
Now, by selecting the page in the Content pane (View > Panes > Content), right-click and then Arrange > Transform, you can apply this rotation-value to the page.

Does this help for you?

[Dimitar - Tracker Supp]

Thanks for the tip Willy.

If we understand the case correctly this should help.

[Jensen Head]

Just an idea (in PDF-XChange Editor): Instead of drawing a "Line", you can draw something similar to a line, by using the "Rectangle" tool. A rectangle gives you the advantage that you can rotate it to the desired angle that corresponds to your text/image. (...)

I think you mean this:

2021-11-22_13-36-55.png

Unfortunately, this is quite time consuming. except that there is no "Specify angle manually" option in the "Direction" field of the "Rotate Pages" window.

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

Hello Jensen Head,

Yes - drawing a rectangle and then getting it rotated at the right angle is indeed time consuming. Drawing a two point line should be much faster, but either option will probably be slower than the Automated Deskew, which you seem to be testing out today

Of course - there might be, hopefully rare, cases where the automated Deskew does not work, and in those cases a manual option might be necessary.

Kind regards,
Stefan