Ghost border artifact with _GDIPlus_ImageResize

[anonymous]

The function _GDIPlus_ImageResize creates images that exhibit the "Ghost Border" problem explained ​here.

It's not all that noticeable unless you're looking for it, however it's significant for my use case. I'm capturing images of text, up-sizing it by 4X with the High Quality Bicubic mode, and then feeding the resulting image into Tesseract OCR. Up-sizing the image drastically improves the OCR, but for some image captures there is not much of a clean border area around the text to begin with, and in those cases the border artifact on the scaled image can sometimes cause incorrect OCR results.

Please consider adding the TileFlipXY option into the resize logic so that the edges of the resized image won't have this artifact. Even aside from my own use case, this is an artifact that somewhat reduces the potential quality of the image.

I'm not sure if TileFlipXY should always be active, or if perhaps it should just be an optional parameter? Best for you to decide I suppose.

Thanks!

[anonymous]

Or to put it another way, in order to prevent the edge from doing interpolation against the default background, provide the DrawImage method with an ImageAttributes instance which has WrapMode set to TileFlipXY.

[anonymous]

More good info about this issue here:
​https://photosauce.net/blog/post/image-scaling-with-gdi-part-3-drawimage-and-the-settings-that-affect-it here

[anonymous]

Some obligatory test code:

#include <GDIPlus.au3>
_GDIPlus_Startup()
Local $hImage = _GDIPlus_ImageLoadFromFile(@ScriptDir & "\TestImage.png")
Local $iWidth = _GDIPlus_ImageGetWidth($hImage)
Local $iHeight = _GDIPlus_ImageGetHeight($hImage)
Local $hBitmap = _GDIPlus_ImageResize( _

$hImage, $iWidth * 4, $iHeight * 4, _
$GDIP_INTERPOLATIONMODE_HIGHQUALITYBICUBIC)

_GDIPlus_ImageSaveToFile($hBitmap, @ScriptDir & "\TestResult.png")
Sleep(500)
_GDIPlus_BitmapDispose($hBitmap)
_GDIPlus_ImageDispose($hImage)
_GDIPlus_Shutdown()

[anonymous]

See also (somewhat) related ticket # 3650

[mdepot@…]

I created a fix for this issue, as well as the issue in ticket #3650. The fix is within the attached file "Test Resize.au3" It contains replacement functions for _GDIPlus_ImageScale and _GDIPlus_ImageResize, as well as a new function to make a dll call to SetWrapMode on an ImageAttribute. These new functions add an ImageAttribute with WrapMode set to TileFlipXY. Currently it's passing the explicit integer 3 to SetWrapMode, which corresponds to TileFlipXY, but that 3 should be replaced with whatever the proper GDI variable is from the headers. Sorry I didn't have that info handy when I made this. Another improvement that could be made is for _GDIPlus_ImageScale to call _GDIPlus_ImageResize instead of repeating a lot of the same code within. Again, this was just a quick fix though. I'm also attaching some sample images showing old and new results.

[mdepot@…]

Submited code fix for this issue and also ticket #3650

[anonymous]

Forum discussion here
​https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/195220-propose-using-imageattribute-with-setwrapmode-to-tileflipxy-on-_gdiplus_imagescale-and-_gdiplus_imageresize-moved/

[Jpm]

Fixed by revision [12325] in version: 3.3.15.4