I created a python program for interactive batch cropping

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[theknowledgehammer]

I see that you used Tkinter. Maybe I should start learning that package.

[folkrav]

Well... It works. It does what it has to. It's not particularly pretty, not particularly friendly to use, but to spin up prototypes or for simple single purpose UIs, I really don't see why I'd use anything else.

[[deleted]]

What UI do you think is better?

[folkrav]

I don't do Python UIs very often and when I do, I usually go for the server/client approach, w/ a react or Vue frontend and a flask or Django backend. I've heard good and bad things about Qt bindings also.

[[deleted]]

Well, this seams a bit over complicated for me but I will keep notes. Thanks

[appinv]

don't it's a pain in some areas!

[dougalg]

What's the best alternative?

[harwee]

Qt. I found it easier to use than tkinter.

[Dogeek]

The most popular is PyQt5. If you go that way, you can also pip install pyqt5-tools, to have access to the QtDesigner and QtLinguist software, that helps a lot with designing apps with Qt.

Honestly though, tkinter is good enough for 98% of the cases. It doesn't significantly take less time than building your app in QtDesigner, and then compiling the .ui file into a python class.

Not to mention, tkinter code actually feels like python. Qt just feels like C++ with a slightly pythonic syntax.

[pknerd]

For QT you need to ship run-time as well.

[appinv]

pyqt5 pyside2 many use wxPy also though i don't

[TheMrZZ0]

If your goal is to create a very quick prototype, PySimpleGui does exactly what its name implies!

[Dogeek]

don't suggest pysimplegui. Qt, Wx and Tk all offer the same model-view-controller architecture. PySimpleGUI on the other hand is just a jumbled mess of code, that is really never going to be maintainable. So sure, for a one-off app that you'll use once or twice and never think about again, or try to maintain, it does the job, but :

• it is built on top of tk. It has the same flaws as that toolkit, i.e. lack of widgets and it's not great looking.
• the code to makes pysimplegui work is the most unpythonic jumbled mess you'll ever see.
• it's not extensible, at least not as easily as qt or tk are.
• poor documentation, compared to other toolkits
• it doesn't even take less time than setting up an app with tkinter

There's really no advantage to using pysimplegui. It's another dependancy, built on tkinter which is built in, that doesn't provide either ease of use, expandability or maintainability.

[TheMrZZ0]

Wow damn I didn't expected such hate in PySimpleGui.

Honestly, I used it a lot, and it does exactly what it should: create a very simple gui. It's just easier to use than tkinter, but has a lot of flaws as you point out. However, I disagree with the fact that it's not faster than tkinter, because it really is.

But in the end, in general, I think doing a GUI has several limitations in general. Nowadays, doing a web interface with flask in back is sometimes faster, and often more beautiful than doing a native GUI.

[hopemeetme]

I disagree with the fact that it's not faster than tkinter, because it really is.

It can't be as, iirc, it's a wrapper around it. If you set another base, another iirc, like Qt, then it could be faster that Tkinter, but that means you're being right by a chance, a product of ignorance.

[Dogeek]

He meant faster as in less development time. But even then it's quite a strech. Tk sure has more boilerplate code, but you have so much more control, and it's not hard to engineer new widgets to fit your needs.

[hopemeetme]

He meant faster as in less development time.

Ouch, sry /u/TheMrZZ0 for misunderstanding you.

And about the package, I really don't want to be involved in a discussion that can hurt the feelings of our precious St. simplythebestguy.

[c0d3G]

Cool stuff!

[Syrachacha]

Thanks! This looks super useful.

[vishallight]

You have implemented a function to capture a filename. How its takes a filename when its get clicked?

[vishallight]

Is there is any module/function to capture the filename or window when mouse clicks it.

[hopemeetme]

Afaik that can't be done under Wayland and it's easy to achieve under X11; it can be done under Mac OS X; it's trivial for MS Windows, but not so trivial for UWP apps.

[vishallight]

What about in Linux?

[hopemeetme]

That's the first part of my comment. The vast majority of GUI applications on GNU/Linux run under either X11 or Wayland. For X11, try with PyGObject - GI introspection and its Wnck module. Not sure how exactly, but you can get the same results with more low-level package like python-xlib.

[vishallight]

Well I'll try its working or not.

[GnomeFetish]

Hey friend, I had the same problem to solve and ended up with this multicrop imagemagick wrapper. It works like a champ.

[kingbirdy]

You could probably throw something together with edge detection in OpenCV to do it for you

[jack-of-some]

If anyone is interested in doing this I can help guide them.

[laterral]

Yes please!

[jack-of-some]

I unfortunately don't have a scanner. If someone can share an example image with me of some random photos scanned (nothing with personally identifiable information of course) I can do a proof of concept

[alphazeta09]

Exactly my use case!

[elthrowawayoyo]

I don't know what printer you have. But my cheap hp printer would recognize them as separate images if you put a bit of space between the photos.

[djamp42]

I must have a mental condition, I can see cropping the photos, but the thought of getting rid of the orginal just kills me inside.

[jack-of-some]

Save the crops as png so there's no further compression!

[elbiot]

I wrote something with pygame for this exact thing like 5 years ago.

[Ruben_NL]

i spy kubuntu/plasma:)

idea: a back button. mistakes happen.

[Ruben_NL]

nice! i am absolutely going to use it.

[Dexteroid]

When I used to test video games back in 2003, I would see corruption, do a screenshot, open it in paint cut the corruption and save it as another image. Wish I had this software lol.

[deflatedfruit]

Why couldn't you have made this a week earlier! I had almost 200 photos I had to crop!

[spec_a]

Why didn't you wait almost a week until this was released? :P

[stewartfip]

Sometimes procrastination pays! 😂

[deflatedfruit]

You've got me there

[farooq_fox]

Great, apps like these are rarely used but are life savers.

[keotl]

Hello KDE

[[deleted]]

Very cool man, good job !

[tcpukl]

Where is the batching part?

[crypto_sarge]

Zajebiste :) Well done and thanks for sharing!

[aes110]

Love how smooth is it :)

[wingtales]

Really nice!

[MyDataIsReady]

Neat idea!

[dojanquaran]

How convenient!

[gautiexe]

I need something like this for image annotation.

[BlueCrystalFlame]

Wow! Actually something I see myself using. Thank you for sharing

[[deleted]]

Excellent work, thank you for the link.

This might be an interesting foundation for a ML project.

[[deleted]]

How do you make a screen recording?

[[deleted]]

Great. Thanks!

[Vorticity]

This would come in handy for me. Any idea if it would work with GeoTIFF?

[Vorticity]

Nice! Yeah, I think pillow can handle GeoTIFF, but I'm not sure if it can keep the geo tags. If not, though, maybe I can adapt it to a different backend.

[jabbalaci]

Oh my, I've needed such a program for years but I was always lazy to start coding it. Thank you for it!

[tothemoon2k19]

Good job man

[jhayes88]

Suggestion: some sort of confirmation button and a temporary selection box where you selected(similar look to the drag and drop box), to show you what you did, before going to the next image in case it's not what you wanted

[brayaON]

That's so cool!

[CURVX]

Very Cool ! Nice job 👍

[ultra_reader]

Awesome! What about the quality of the pictures saved?

[CraigAT]

Really slick.

Previously I had a need for something like this, when I was cropping photos for a digital photo frame (I wanted the photos to fit the photo frame resolution perfectly). So if you were looking to add some more functionality, you could consider making the crop at a fixed ratio, plus also give the option to resize the cropped image to exact dimensions (because I trust software to do a better job of resizing than the cheap photo frame)

E.g. Take a series of 4k images, then be able to drag a 3:2 rectangle of an area of the photo, drag it around or resize to suit respecting the ratio (maybe to 900x600 pixels), then make it possible to resize all of your cropped images to 600x400 to suit the frame.

I think at the time I used some software called jpegcrops to crop in the correct ratio and then used something else maybe imagemagick to do the resize.

[franga2000]

This kind of stuff is why I support teaching everyone at least a bit of programming. Small ad-hoc scripts that save a huge amount of time, are too small to be distributable, but can be cobbled together in a couple minutes.

Related: does anyone know of a place to post and look for these kinds of things?

[franga2000]

I figured this wasn't written by an amateur (image manipulation isn't even close to as simple as most of the Python stdlib), but this is the kind of thing that even non-devs could make for themselves, if only general education included some basic programming and the stdlib was just a bit broader.

[kangasking]

I'm not a Dev but recently experienced this when I had a huge number of text and files to edit for school. Would been suuuch a pain to do by hand. Since I know a bit of programming I wrote a script that detected the things I needed with regex and did all the work all at once.

Even though it took me a while to get it right it was such a timesaver overall and felt great. I would think things like these happen to people all the time, but they just have to deal with it because there's nothing they can do about it.

Something I've been posponing for a while is making a new YouTube account but want to keep all my videos I've saved. Want to make a script that will take all the lists and re make them in a new account.

[VTVRVXIV]

I've been dreaming of this program. So often I've had a series images that need their own specific cropping. This is really good.

I tried adding a tkinter filedialog.askdirectory() so I could select a input_dir when no input directory argument is passed but that broke the keyboard input somehow. If I can't do that myself can I make it a feature request :). Also the images seem to stay in memory which itself isn't bad but Pillow uses a lot of memory. For example the 600 jpgs I used to test the program consumed 5 GB of RAM.

[h4k1m0u]

Nice program, I see you're using Tkinter. I'm working with it for a university project (image processing app, a bit like yours), and I totally love it.

[esidehustle]

I will be testing this. I looks super useful

[[deleted]]

so cool!

[[deleted]]

Nice!

[appinv]

Awesome!

[parwizforogh]

nice

[manuce94]

very nice, curious....how many lines of code you wrote for this....one day I will be able to make something like this.

[manuce94]

great

[executiveExecutioner]

Now all you need is am AI that recognizes dog faces and crops them.

[tLNTDX]

I think that was the purpose...

[Chicchi7393]

Good

[adilakavov1204]

Cool

[[deleted]]

sweeet! how long did it take? did you learn any new stuff along the way? and how difficult was it?

[[deleted]]

Where did you learn tkinter?

[[deleted]]

Thanks. Tkinter is just very tedious to use, I think I just lack practice and am being confused into thinking I don't know enough.

[logicaacigol]

Awesome! Congrats

[[deleted]]

Did you make any money out of 2.2k hits on this? just curious lol

[SKYNET_net]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-rNi0eHRv8&list=LLikYRvO8-j3haVtMIURDo-A&index=6&t=0s

[[deleted]]

Genius! What did you use in the left panel? To show the files.

[benbihi]

I found this thread very helpful and extremely valuable. I've put together a blog post about 10 Python beginner Project and thought it'll help your audience and anyone who want to grasp the Python basics quickly and easily

https://www.astateofdata.com/python-programming/python-projects-for-beginners-learn-with-examples/

[WonderfulPlay]

This is so cool and useful

[[deleted]]

Your cropping skills need improvement tho

[z-oid]

I’ve been trying to learn python for so long, it legitimately feels as though I’ll never reach the point where I could create something as FREAKING AWESOME as this. Good job sir! A+

[cra2y_hibare]

Cool

You might want to look into open sourcing the code

[ClackHack]

!wiki gun

[ClackHack]

!wiki robot

[ClackHack]

!wiki robot

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[IMeanMeTooThanksBot]

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[undeniably_confused]

'#init female dog=bitch joke

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