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Workflow - Auto Rotate Images?

asked on May 17, 2019

Have a customer who has documents with upside down images. Is there way with Workflow to auto rotate images? 

Thanks in advance.   

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replied on May 17, 2019

A couple of questions

  1. Do you have a way to identify which pages/images need to be rotated?
  2. Are the images always upside down, or only some?
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replied on May 17, 2019

Hey Jason...

1. No

2. Only some

 

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replied on May 17, 2019 Show version history

In that case, I don't think there would be any way to automate this unless you are referring to page images with text content rather than pictures/graphics.

Quick Fields can auto-rotate based on text orientation, but I don't know of any readily available software that is capable of detecting the correct orientation of a photo/image.

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replied on May 17, 2019

I have been looking into this on and off over the last few months, because it is a constant issue when pictures are submitted as part of the process. Apparently any device with a gravity sensor, which is just about any phone, or tablet device that might be used to take the picture, will save an orientation value to the exif data.

Reading this one parameter seems to be very tricky though, I tried 3 completely different examples. They all require converting the image into a BLOB format first, then reading the BLOB data. Every time this comes back with the same orientation value though, -2.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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replied on May 21, 2019

Figured it out today, turns out PNG format drops the exif data.

Switched to JPG format and it works perfectly!

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