Pbmclean User Manual(0) Pbmclean User Manual(0)NAMEpbmclean - flip isolated pixels in portable bitmap
SYNOPSISpbmclean [-minneighbors=N] [-black|-white] [pbmfile]
OPTION USAGE
You can use the minimum unique abbreviation of the options. You can
use two hyphens instead of one. You can separate an option name from
its value with white space instead of an equals sign.
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
pbmclean cleans up a PBM image of random specks. It reads a PBM image
as input and outputs a PBM that is the same as the input except with
isolated pixels inverted. An isolated pixel is one that has very few
neighboring pixels of the same color. The -minneighbors option gives
the number of same-color neighbors are required.
The default is 1 pixel -- only completely isolated pixels are flipped.
(A -minneighbors value greater than 8 generates a completely inverted
image (but use pnminvert to do that) -- or a completely white or com‐
pletely black image with the -black or -white option).
pbmclean considers the area beyond the edges of the image to be white.
(This matters when you consider pixels right on the edge of the image).
You can use pbmclean to clean up 'snow' on bitmap images.
OPTIONS-black
-white Flip pixels of the specified color. By default, if you specify
neither -black nor -white, pbmclean flips both black and white
pixels which do not have sufficient identical neighbors. If you
specify -black, pbmclean leaves the white pixels alone and just
erases isolated black pixels. Vice versa for -white. You may
specify both -black and -white to get the same as the default
behavior.
-minneighbors=N
This determines how many pixels must be in a cluster in order
for pbmclean to consider them legitimate and not clean them out
of the image. See Description ⟨#description⟩ .
Before December 2001, pbmclean accepted -N instead of -minneigh‐
bors. Before Netpbm 10.27 (March 2005), -minneighbors was -min‐
neighbor.
SEE ALSOpbm(1)AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1990 by Angus Duggan Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.
Copyright (C) 2001 by Michael Sternberg.
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, pro‐
vided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in sup‐
porting documentation. This software is provided 'as is' without
express or implied warranty.
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