Measuring thickness of translucent plastic by scanner

Thickness measurement is important in various engineering fields. The several methods have been used to measure the thickness. This work explains a novel method for measuring the thickness of translucent plastic materials using scanner. The plastic samples were scanned against a white and a black background and the RGB parameters of obtained images were used to measure the opacity. Then, the thickness was calculated using relationship between thickness and opacity of samples. The best thickness prediction was obtained using a 3rd polynomial regression with the XYZ parameter.