Replace data on Image

kennyapril · Post by **kennyapril** » Thu Jan 17, 2013 2:06 pm

Hello,

Our team does data masking for data from different data bases.

Is there something from IBM where we can mask or replace data on images like credit card, license.

Need to figure out where there is data on the image and replace it with some other word, like finding the pixel place and mask or replace it.

Please suggest me any other tool in the market if there is no such tool in IBM.

Thanks

jhmckeever · Post by **jhmckeever** » Thu Jan 17, 2013 5:57 pm

Hi kennyapril ,

I don't believe IBM provide anything to do this, but as you're on Unix you could easily use imagemagick to mask the appropriate area by specifying the coordinates of the offending area on the image.

See http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/blur/ and http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/masking/ for examples.

John.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Thu Jan 17, 2013 7:14 pm

I think one of the problems is they don't know where or even if there is anything in the image that may need to be masked. That's the first piece of the puzzle that needs to be solved - finding the text data in an image and then deciding if it needs to be masked. Then comes the image replacement / masking part.

kennyapril · Post by **kennyapril** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 9:32 am

Hi John,

Thank you for the information and links. Actually we are looking for something which can mask the names on an image as Chulett said ex: name on a license.
The links suggested by you seems to be masking images .
Correct me if I am wrong

Hi Chulett,

That is what exactly we need to do,we can figure out where the alphabets are present by the pixel location.
If we can figure out where the names/addresses are there, Is there some kind of tool which can mask them on the given image.

Thank you:)