Patent ID: 7945116

Claim:
A method for cropping a plurality of related images, the method comprising: providing a scanned document; receiving a page interval identifying a plurality of pages from the scanned document; identifying a first reference image on a first page of the page interval; identifying a second reference image on a second page of the page interval, wherein the first page and the second page are separated by a plurality of pages having images thereon; defining a first cropping area on the first page for the first reference image; defining a second cropping area on the second page for the second reference image, wherein the position of the first cropping area with respect to the first page is different than the position of the second cropping area with respect to the second page; defining a cropping area on each of the plurality of pages for each of the images thereon, wherein the cropping areas on each of the plurality of pages are defined based on the positions of the first cropping area and the second cropping area; providing an interface adapted to allow a user to adjust one or more of the cropping areas; displaying on the interface, each of the pages with the associated cropping areas superimposed thereon; receiving from the user, an adjustment of at least one of the cropping areas of the plurality of pages; and redefining the cropping area of the page associated with the adjusted cropping area.