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Recent versions of ImageMagick account for the alpha channel when trimming. Perhaps you are using an older version of ImageMagick or perhaps you need to increase the fuzziness (e.g. -fuzz 40%).

Chances are your image does not have a uniform background color which stops the trimming from working as you had hoped. You might be able to eliminate some noise with a median filter first and see if that makes a difference.

ggambett wrote: The alpha channel is correctly empty in the left zone. The color channels do have color data in some of the transparent areas, as shown with -separate.

There are a few pixels in column 0 whose alpha value differs, as you can see with: You can overcome this by doing: