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: How do you rectangulate a quadilateral selection in photoshop? What this is for is that, i have a lot of scanned documents with passport size photos in each of them. The photos are aligned

@Reiling762

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What this is for is that, i have a lot of scanned documents with passport size photos in each of them. The photos are aligned randomly. I need to separate them out.
What i currently do is make selection using polygonal marquee tool, then use Free Transform to straighten it out and later crop, resize and save the pp photo.
I want to define an action that would automatically turn my selection into a properly aligned rectangle and crop the selection.
Is there a way to achieve this in a way better than my current way?

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@Hamaas979

If you have Photoshop CS6 or newer, the Perspective Crop tool might be just what you're looking for. Hit C to select the Crop tool, then Shift-C for Perspective Crop.

There's two ways you can use this: Click the four corners of the item as you've been doing with Polygonal Marquee, or drag a rough rectangle around the item and then adjust the corners individually into the quadrilateral shape you desire. Then just hit Enter and Photoshop will re-perspectivize the quadrilateral into a perfect rectangle.

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@BetL875

Photoshop has a built-in script that is designed for exactly this purpose. It goes back at least to Photoshop 6, iirc.

From the File menu, choose Automate > Crop and Straighten Photos (that's a clue, right there) and let the program work its magic.

This works for single or multiple images within a single image, and creates new documents for each extracted image.

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