Watermark is a pretty common thing you will find in many pictures or documents these days. Sometimes they are annoying for reading. Here I am going to show you a simple way to remove watermark with Matlab. In this example, the watermark is a single colored text in a document (mostly black and white with some limited colors). The script basically replace the gray watermark color (with some tolerance of errors in RGB values) with white color.
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pic = imread(['./orig/',fn]); % fn is the name of the file to be converted. water_mark = [235, 236, 236]; wm1 = repmat( water_mark, size(pic,1)*size(pic,2), 1); wm = reshape(wm1, size(pic,1), size(pic,2), size(pic,3)); pic0 = reshape( pic, size(pic,1)*size(pic,2), size(pic,3) ); pic1 = zeros( size(pic0) ); for i=1:size(pic0,1) pic1(i,:) = pic0(i,:); end err = pic1 - wm1 ; posr = find( abs(err(:,1)) < 8); posg = find( abs(err(:,2)) < 8); posb = find( abs(err(:,3)) < 8); pos = []; for i=1:length(posr) if length(find(posg== posr(i))) ~=0 & length(find(posb==posr(i))) ~= 0 pos = [pos posr(i)]; end end pic2 = pic; pic2( pos ) = 255; pic2( pos + size(pic,1)*size(pic,2) ) = 255; pic2( pos + 2 * size(pic,1)*size(pic,2) ) = 255; imwrite(pic2, ['./converted/', fn] ); |
How to remove a simple watermark from a picture with Matlab
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