ImageCut

What Is ImageCut?

ImageCut is a convenient tool to cut a long vertical image to many pieces, some parameters can be set when cutting such as max resolution and max file size.

It is designed to cut these kind of images:

• screenshot of a long web page
• a doc or pdf file that saved as one image

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Windows Release

How to Use ImageCut?

A basic process is as follows:

• Press "Open" button to open a image
• Add cut lines
  • "Left Click" on image to add cut line
  • "Right Click" to remove cut line
  • "Clear" button on remove all cut lines
  • "Ctrl" + "Mouse Wheel" to zoom in and out
• Press "Set" button to set parameters such as max resolution and max file size
• Press "Save" button to save cut pieces, finish when the "Save" button turns to green
  • cut pieces will be saved in the same directory as the origin image
  • cut pieces will be saved in jpg format

Some Disadvantages

1. When packed into exe, the start-up time of ImageCut is too slow
2. The method to show display image wastes too much calculation

Introduction of Code

This code is based on python3 with PyQt5. There are 4 classes: MainWindow, SettingsDialog, ImgWidget, ImgProcess

1. MainWindow: main window that connects the other parts
2. SettingsDialog: a dialog that sets parameters when cutting
3. ImgWidget: a widget based on QLabel and ImgProcess that can display and peocess images conveniently
4. ImgProcess: contains almost all algorithms of images such as zoom and cut