Methods and systems are described herein for applying padding (e.g., a scale factor) to a detected object (e.g., a rotated rectangle or other shape) in an image before rotation correction is applied. By applying the padding prior to the rotation correction, the system is more efficient as rotation correction may be performed simultaneously with other processing tasks such as cropping and downscaling. For example, by applying padding first, the system is able to keep rotation correction, cropping, and/or downscaling as a single step, which is quicker and more efficient.