---
name: "empty-page"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "exactimage"
version: "1.2.1-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/empty-page"
---

# empty-page(1)

empty page detector of the ExactImage toolkit

## NAME

empty-page - empty page detector of the ExactImage toolkit

## SYNOPSIS

**empty-page** \[*option*...\] {**-i** \| **--input**} *input-file*

**empty-page** {**-h** \| **--help**}

## DESCRIPTION

ExactImage is a fast C++ image processing library. Unlike many other library frameworks it allows operation in several color spaces and bit depths natively, resulting in low memory and computational requirements.

**empty-page** counts dark pixels of a black and white image and decides with a threshold whether the page is most probably empty, and thus can be removed from the image processing stream.

## OPTIONS

- **-i** *file*, **--input** *file*

  Read image from the specified file.

- **-m** *n*, **--margin** *n*

  Set width of border margin to skip. For speed reasons, the margin has to be a multiple of 8. The default is 16.

- **-p** *x*, **--percentage** *x*

  Set fraction of permissible dark pixels. The default is 0.05 (5%).

- **-h**, **--help**

  Display help text and exit.

## EXAMPLES

```
$ empty-page -i test.tif
The image has 75461 dark pixels from a total of 1060992 (7.11231%).
non-empty
```

## EXIT STATUS

The exit status is 0 if the image is mostly white, 1 otherwise.

## SEE ALSO

[**exactimage**(7)](/exactimage/7.md)

## AUTHORS

**Jakub Wilk** \<jwilk@debian.org\>

Wrote this manual page for the Debian system.

**https://exactcode.com/opensource/exactimage/**

This manual page incorporates texts found on the ExactImage homepage.

## COPYRIGHT

This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.