How to crop black margins after scanning?

Answer:

If you have ever scanned a book or viewed a scanned copy of a book you have surely noticed black margins around the image. If you need to print these images, you should remove black margins beforehand. This operation is long and tiresome when performed manually while Image Converter Plus deals with it in several mouse clicks.

Here's a way of removing black margins from images with the help of Image Converter Plus:

• Launch Image Converter Plus.
• Go to Photos tab, select and add files you want to change to the specified size.
• Go to Script tab and click on "Add operation" in the "Operation before save: Add operation" line. Select Crop Image from the menu.
• Click on "+" mark to the left of Add operation line to expand settings of added operations.
• In Crop Image operation, select "margins autocrop" line from the list.
• In "Auto crop border color" combobox, select "Black" line (if margin color is neither black nor white, select "User defined" line and choose a color from the dialog box, then press OK button).
• To crop margins correctly, experiment with "tolerance" value to achieve best results. Do the following:
• Set value to 10% with the help of the scroller located to the right of image area.
• Press Preview button.
• Press Generate button.
• The result is displayed in the bottom right corner of the screen. If you're not satisfied with the result, experiment with "tolerance" value and generate the image once again. If you're satisfied with the result check other conversion settings.
• In "Save images in .... format" line, select the format of the resulting image.
• Adjust format settings (default values are optimal).
• Specify the path for resulting images.
• Adjust other settings.
• Press "Start" button to start conversion.