I'm scanning old family photos with a Canon LiDE 400 using scanimage but the scanner outputs/scans the whole scanning surface, not only the photo. I'm working in the Linux terminal and I'd rather not install a GUI at this time. If I did, I'd simply use XSane to crop the image. The scanner doesn't have any length/width markings along its edges, otherwise I'd just input the dimensions of the photo.

Any solutions?

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[–] 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If I want to scan a 100mm wide by 50mm tall area at 300 DPI, I use:

scanimage -x 100 -y 150 --resolution 300 --output-file foo.jpg
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  • [–] [S] 5 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Thanks! I did end up setting the X and Y measurements. It's just too bad that my scanners scanning points do not start exactly in the corner of the scanner. It was a somewhat cheapo scanner, so I guess I got what I paid for.

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