“…White areas on the images of the coated paper samples are correlated to the surface damages that occurred during the folding process (Rättö & Hornatowska, 2010;Yang & Xie, 2011;Barbier et al, 2012;Rättö et al, 2012;Sim et al, 2012;Oh et al, 2015;Oh et al, 2016;Pál et al, 2017;Rajabi Abhari et al, 2018;Najafi et al, 2019b;Wang & Ding, 2020;Pál et al, 2021). To determine the white pixels` percentage on the digitized folded paper samples and the corresponding additional image features, an image processing algorithm has been developed with the following requirements (Sinha, 2000;Apro et al, 2011;Malek, 2012;Takemetoyo et al, 2007;Nashat et al, 2014;Goncalves et al, 2015;Sengupta et al, 2015): autonomous work, noise suppression, accurate surface damage mapping to the binary image, computationally as simple as a possible solution.…”