I receive about 500 to 1000 photos of charts or graphs on a daily basis that i have to remove all the components of the photos except their numerical values.
This is an example of my photos:
I select graph bars using Magic Wand Tools in Photoshop:
Then move selected area to between logos and the numerical values:
And finally, by removing the various components of the images, only numerical values remain:
I have to do these steps with Photoshop action feature because the number of my daily photos is very high.
I can do these steps with action feature automatically if the distance between the edge of the graph bars and the first digit of the numerical values is the same in all images. but the main problem here is that the space between the numerical values and the graph bars in the images received daily is not the same.
For example, this is another photo where the distance between the numerical values and the bars of the graph is very close:
If I apply the steps I went through for the previous image using Photoshop action feature on this image, surely some of the numerical values will be removed in this image.
How can I delete all the components of my daily images except the numerical values through the Photoshop action feature?
Can I move selected area exactly to before the numeric values using the Photoshop script?
Note:
- I can't use Photoshop Color Range tool for selecting numeric values because numeric values have same color as the rest of the image contents.
- My daily images have a single layer and are not smart objects.
- number of images received daily is very high and I cannot do it manually. I must do it with Photoshop action feature or another automatic solution.
- I can't use OCR tool because some of the images contain some logos that contain letters or numbers. If the logo numbers are extracted and combined with numerical values, it is not possible to find the extracted logo numbers.
- The space between the graph bar and numerical values in each image is specific and this distance is different between different images.
- The space between the graph bar and numerical values in a photo is the same.
- All my images resolution is same
- It is not a problem if resolution of the photo are changed.
- I know that the explanation I provided is complicated, but I could not express my problem more simply than this.
I have been facing this difficult problem for about three months and I hope I can find a solution here
Sorry if there are any spelling errors in the text because my English is very poor. I wrote this text with the help of Google Translate.
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Some very quick experimentation lead to this (which can be automated), further minor cleanup may then be required - such as the "g":
Instead of layers, one could work with channels and or in grayscale mode instead of RGB which could possibly speed things up slightly.
I implemented the method you said on this photo, but I did not get good results:
Results will vary, I don't have a magic answer, here is another sample using the same method:
An only slightly different approach:
It is a very good method for my work, but it has some problems. For example, I tested the filters for another photo of the charts and some piece of the logos were not deleted:
Even by increasing or decreasing the values of the filters, they were not cleared!
Can filters be set for numbers? It means the opposite of what we did
no i have not Photoshop Scripting experience - i used only ready scripts before
no, numbers maybe 3 or 4 digits long.
can use script to convert all selection to specific layer and then delete the two rows on the left using script? Or keep only the right column rows?
no problem. can test script on this photo:
I check the photos for elements merge before using the script
yes i have. but only i can use ready scripts and i don't know javascript.
for example today i found and tested this script from github:
https://github.com/ES-Collection/Photoshop-Scripts/blob/master/Split%202%20Layers.jsx
i tested on this image:
but i have some problems:
1) after remove white background and split all photo components to specific layers, i don't know how can i auto select two left raw column layers by photoshop action! - I actually don't know how to delete all layers except the numeric value layers.
2) selecting background with magic wand tool and then inverse it, all photo components will select but in this case, all numbers of numerical values are converted into a separate layer. I don't know how to convert each numerical value to a layer?
3) if i use expand to merge numbers selections maybe it merge with logos selections:
4) can edit that script to convert two left rows to each layers and delete them? Selecting all photo components takes more seconds and is not suitable for 500 or 1000 photos.
i must select background using magic wand tool and then inverse selection to select all image contents then expand selection 1 or 2 pixels so that a small amount of white color surrounds the content of the photo. Finally, change the background color to red: 
Here we need a script to segment the image based on red color and each segmented segment into a separate layer. The photo will probably be split into three columns, and the script should remove the two leftmost columns to leave the column of numeric values alone.
Finally, we return the background color and the deleted values to white.
I don't know how to find or create such a script.
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