This work is focused on the evaluation of physical coffee beans through a model of automatic classification of defects. The model uses a segmentation step that discriminates the background from the coffee bean image with a follow contours algorithm, then a CGLCM is introduced as features extractor and a Support Vector Machine for the classification task, a database of images has been collected with a total of 3367 images, the classification process used twelve categories of defects, the results of classification showed a accuracy of 86%. Finally a set of conclusions and future works are presented.