Automatically crop scanned picture
After clicking the "crop"-tool in SimpleScan, it should try to autocrop the scanned documents or pictures. Then the user could adjust the crop-area manually.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Obsolete
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
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Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
- Michael Nagel
Whiteboard
In order to consolidate Simple Scan information, this has been copied to a relevant bug report and will be discussed there.
imagemagick can do this with -trim
Why not add a checkbox to the UI, so that all documents can be instantly autocropped on scan, and pipe image through to ImageMagick to do the hard work.
This is a very useful feature of scanning software for ADF scanners which are used a lot for receipts. I have a ScanSnap S300 - this works great in Simple Scan - but the bundled windows software will autocrop my receipts so I don't have to resize each one manually. Useful when I'm scanning 100+...
