Cropping should be relative to a scan boundry

[Jim Rorie]

When cropping, the program sets the new boundaries in the middle of the scanned object. Since most items are placed in a corner of a platter, it makes since for the crop routine to crop relative to a corner.

See attachment cropping from legal to letter. Ideally the new boundary box would comprise either the top or the bottom of the scan

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

This one is difficult because Simple Scan cannot tell which edge is the "top" or "bottom". The solution will probably be to remember where the edge last crop was placed on and put any new crops onto the same edge.

[Jim Rorie (jfrorie)]

You make the assumption that the edge where the data first appears is the reference edge. Thus start the crop from the side were you start to paint the preview.

[John Pye (jdpipe)]

Agreed, would be great if the crop defaulted to a smart location instead of the middle. With my scanner, the 'auto size' feature fails to detect the page size, hence I have to crop every page individually (or else set the scan size manually and scan again). If it at least cropped using a sensible default (what the default is may be scanner-model-specific, but I am sure it's consistent), then that would save a lot of messing about.