Question

I have done some searching and i can not find any function thats doing what i whant it todo.

I have a image file of a scanned document with text, but the document is some degrees rotated so i whant to rotate it so the text being inline with each other.

In a perfect world its should be a function doing this automaticly but i can not find anything and what i understand to get it to work automaticly its needed to be some analyze of the image and i think its to big thing todo.

But then i have done a tool to rotate the image on a website manually, but now i need a function to save the rotation to the image file.

This seems to be some differents methods for but no one i tested doing what i whant.

The function i have finded that works almost like i whant is:

public static Bitmap RotateImg(Bitmap bmp, float angle, Color bkColor) {
int w = bmp.Width;
int h = bmp.Height;
PixelFormat pf = default(PixelFormat);
if (bkColor == Color.Transparent)
{
    pf = PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb;
}
else
{
    pf = bmp.PixelFormat;
}

Bitmap tempImg = new Bitmap(w, h, pf);
Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(tempImg);
g.Clear(bkColor);
g.DrawImageUnscaled(bmp, 1, 1);
g.Dispose();

GraphicsPath path = new GraphicsPath();
path.AddRectangle(new RectangleF(0f, 0f, w, h));
Matrix mtrx = new Matrix();
//Using System.Drawing.Drawing2D.Matrix class 
mtrx.Rotate(angle);
RectangleF rct = path.GetBounds(mtrx);
Bitmap newImg = new Bitmap(Convert.ToInt32(rct.Width), Convert.ToInt32(rct.Height), pf);
g = Graphics.FromImage(newImg);
g.Clear(bkColor);
g.TranslateTransform(-rct.X, -rct.Y);
g.RotateTransform(angle);
g.InterpolationMode = InterpolationMode.HighQualityBilinear;
g.DrawImageUnscaled(tempImg, 0, 0);
g.Dispose();
tempImg.Dispose();
return newImg; }

But this do not change the height and width of the image file so the image file is in the same size but the image “object” has been scaled and rotated.

Any idea how i can do this good?

Answer
I find the solution that worked with my image that has a resolution on 300 at a old answer here.

Answer 1

If I’ve understood your question correctly, you essentially want to work out the new size of an image once rotated, and how to position the rotated image in it’s new bitmap.

The diagram hopefully helps make clear the solution. Here is a bit of pseudo code:

sinVal = abs(sin(angle))
cosVal = abs(cos(angle))
newImgWidth = sinVal * oldImgHeight + cosVal * oldImgWidth
newImgHeight = sinVal * oldImgWidth + cosVal * oldImgHeight
originX = 0
originY = sinVal * oldImgWidth

You want to make the new image from the newImgWidth and newImgHeight, and then perform a rotation around the origin (originX, originY) and then render the image to this point. This will fall over if the angle (in degrees) isn’t between -90 and 0 degrees (depicted). If it is between 0 and 90 degrees, then you just change the origin:

originX = sinVal * oldImgHeight
originY = 0

If it is in the range 90 degrees to 270 degrees (-90 degrees) then it is a little tricker (see example code below).

Your code re-written (briefly tested) – it is slightly dodgy but seems to work:

public static Bitmap RotateImg(Bitmap bmp, float angle, Color bkColor)
{
    angle = angle % 360;
    if (angle > 180)
        angle -= 360;

    System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat pf = default(System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat);
    if (bkColor == Color.Transparent)
    {
        pf = System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb;
    }
    else
    {
        pf = bmp.PixelFormat;
    }

    float sin = (float)Math.Abs(Math.Sin(angle * Math.PI / 180.0)); // this function takes radians
    float cos = (float)Math.Abs(Math.Cos(angle * Math.PI / 180.0)); // this one too
    float newImgWidth = sin * bmp.Height + cos * bmp.Width;
    float newImgHeight = sin * bmp.Width + cos * bmp.Height;
    float originX = 0f;
    float originY = 0f;

    if (angle > 0)
    {
        if (angle <= 90)
            originX = sin * bmp.Height;
        else
        {
            originX = newImgWidth;
            originY = newImgHeight - sin * bmp.Width;
        }
    }
    else
    {
        if (angle >= -90)
        originY = sin * bmp.Width;
        else
        {
            originX = newImgWidth - sin * bmp.Height;
            originY = newImgHeight;
        }
    }

    Bitmap newImg = new Bitmap((int)newImgWidth, (int)newImgHeight, pf);
    Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(newImg);
    g.Clear(bkColor);
    g.TranslateTransform(originX, originY); // offset the origin to our calculated values
    g.RotateTransform(angle); // set up rotate
    g.InterpolationMode = System.Drawing.Drawing2D.InterpolationMode.HighQualityBilinear;
    g.DrawImageUnscaled(bmp, 0, 0); // draw the image at 0, 0
    g.Dispose();

    return newImg;
}

Note the Degrees to Radians Conversion (180 Degrees == Pi Radians) for the trig functions

Edit: big issue was negative sin values, and me getting width/height confused when calculating origin x/y – this should work fine now (tested)

Edit: modified code to handle any angle