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Screenshot Captor / Auto Cropping Book Cover Images

« on: December 12, 2014, 06:51 PM »

Hi,

In my last post I mentioned I automatically grab an Image into Screenshot Captor from my Webcam, then Automatically Rotate this image using Screenshot Captors Auto Rotate Function and then Store the Image with an Appropriate Name. All if this is done by pressing a "SNAP" button in an Excel Dialog Box I created.  I use Autohotkeys to "Glue" Excel to Screenshot Captor".

After I have a file full of Images, I pull these images back into Screenshot Captor and Manually Crop them.

I would like to do this automatically as well when I first Capture the Image using Screenshot Captor.  Is there an Add-on to Screenshot Captor I could use to do this.   Presently the Images I am taking are of Book Covers have a Very Black Velvet Background.   This works very well for having Screenshot Captor Rotate the Images.  For most of the Book Covers I Crop out all the black background leaving just the  book cover.  

If there is not a way to do this using Screenshot Captor with an Add-on, does anyone know what would be a good program I could use to do this in a batch mode?  I would want to point the program to the file that contains the Book Cover Images and have it go through each Image automatically in a batch mode, cropping as I described above.

For some Images after I find the edge of the Book Cover, I would like to back off 1/2 or 3/4 of an inch and crop here leaving a black boarder around the image.  Does anyone know how I can do this Automatically as well?


Thanks In Advance

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Screenshot Captor / Using Microsoft LifeCam Studio Webcam with Screen Capture

« on: December 11, 2014, 03:47 PM »

Hi,

I have been using my low resolution 640 x 480? LifeCam Webcam to get images directly into Screenshot Captor.  I have been very pleased with the results.  I have just received a LifeCam Studio Webcam I purchased from Ebay to get High Definition Images (1280 x 720) into Screenshot Captor from a WebCam.

However, no mater what I have tried to do so far, when I grab an Image using Screen Capture from the New Webcam it ends up being only 640 x ??? pixels in size.  I have tried opening up the LifeCam software, setting the Resolution to 1280 x 720, closing the LifeCam software, opening up Screenshot Captor and then garbing a webcam image.  The Image imputed to Screenshot captor is still Low Resolution.

How do I capture a High Resolution Image from my new WebCam with Screenshot captor?  

Also, LifeCam Studio can take 1920 x 1040 high resolution images using the snapshot mode.  Is there a way to take these high resolution snapshots directly from Screenshoot Captor?

Below is a quick description of my application of Screenshot Captor and the High Def Webcam.

I have an Excel Macro controlled spreadsheet I use to input a lot of information for an Item.  In a Dialog box I have a "SNAP" button.  When I click on this Button, Excel opens up Screenshot Capture, grabs an Image of the Item using Screenshot Captor, Has Screenshot Captor automatically Rotate the image to be perpendicular and store the image with an appropriate name close Screenshot Captor and return control to Excel.  I use Autohotkeys as the glue between Excel and Screenshot Captor.


Thanks Much