NAME
pbmclean - flip isolated pixels in portable bitmap
SYNOPSIS
pbmclean [-minneighbors=N] [-black|-white] [pbmfile]
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.
Before December 2001, pbmclean accepted -N instead of -minneighbors.
DESCRIPTION
pbmclean cleans up a PBM image of random specs. It reads a PBM image
as input and outputs a PBM that is the same as the input except with
every pixel which has less than N identical neighbours inverted.
The default for N is 1 - only completely isolated pixels are flipped.
(A value of N greater than 8 generates a completely inverted image (but
use pnminvert to do that) -- or a completely white or completely 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.
SEE ALSO
pbm(5)
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,
provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
supporting documentation. This software is provided "as is" without
express or implied warranty.
18 Oct 2001 pbmclean(1)