Horizontal Line detection with OpenCV

Question

I am trying to find horizontal and vertical lines from an image which came from a \"document\". The documents are scanned pages from contracts and so the lines look like wha

Answer 1

Have you seen a code sample from HoughLinesP function documentation?

I think you can use it as starting point for your algorithm. To pick horizontal an vertical lines you just need to filter out other lines by line angle.

UPDATE:

As I see you need to find not the lines but horizontal an vertical edges on the page. For this task you need to combine several processing steps to get good results.

For your image I'm able to get good results by combining Canny edge detection with HoughLinesP. Here is my code (I've used python, but I think you see the idea):

img = cv2.imread("C:/temp/1.png")
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
edges = cv2.Canny(gray, 80, 120)
lines = cv2.HoughLinesP(edges, 1, math.pi/2, 2, None, 30, 1);
for line in lines[0]:
    pt1 = (line[0],line[1])
    pt2 = (line[2],line[3])
    cv2.line(img, pt1, pt2, (0,0,255), 3)
cv2.imwrite("C:/temp/2.png", img)

Result looks like: