A method for determining the position of an edge bead removal line of a disk-like object having an edge area and an alignment mark on the edge area is disclosed, wherein the edge area including the edge bead removal line is imaged on a line-by-line basis, an intensity profile I of the imaged edge area including the edge bead removal line is obtained with a camera on a line-by-line basis, and the edge area and the alignment mark are detected, wherein the local intensity maxima I′max of the intensity profile I are plotted as points in a diagram, segment sets are formed in the diagram, the segment sets are fitted in ellipses, and a quality criterion qges is determined for each ellipse.