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How to clean up a whiteboard photo using GIMP

Skipping other possible actions, such as perspective corrections, here is how:

1. Duplicate the base image layer.
2. Set the new layer's mode to "Divide".
3. Apply a Gaussian blur with a radius of about 50 (Filters/Blur/Gaussian Blur...).

If you need to manipulate the resulting image further, create a new layer from visible (Layer/New from Visible).

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Description

This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.

The script is here:

#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"

Results