Thin

Thinning or automatic removal of contour pixels in any graphics in the document may be useful for preparing a document for vectorizing by an external vectorizing process. To thin an area, use the following procedure: Select the area with any of the selection tools and click the Thin Icon. Note that this function is available for black / white images only

Image thinning facility in PixEdit, example of scanned image Left: Graphics before and after thinning

To thin the whole image, follow the previous procedure without selecting an area. The Erode option removes contour pixels without checking if they belong to the skeleton of the object.

Image thinning with in PixEdit, dialogue

Many functions in PixEdit can span page ranges. You can thin a page range as shown above

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