Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

i ended up doing what amounts to that, yes.

i posted over on stackexchange and got a similar suggestion. it turns out it is surprisingly simple.

for the image as described,
$im = new Imagick(realpath('./image.jpg'));
$im->trimImage(0);
$pagedata = $im->getImagePage();
$im->setImagePage(0, 0, 0, 0 ...

@bonzo - thanks for the heads-up, i didn't know the development teams were different.

@snibgo - yes, always parallel. if i can't find a way to do this w/o resorting to a system call -- whether it's system() or exec() makes little difference -- then i'll use his solution, it seemed to do exactly ...

thanks, mw42.

Looks to me the OP wants an Imagick method and not a command line one.

If that is the case dave007 you may have a problem as Imagick does not have all the functionality of Imagemagick.
that is correct. the app is in php. is there a way i could do this in imagick ? if there's a way ...

given an image composed of a plain black field with a single white rectangle inside it somewhere, how can i extract the coordinates of the rectangle ? i've googled and googled and found numerous articles on edge detection using hough lines, convolution, morphology, etc., but all of these actually ...