Clever Crop

Scanned documents, such as receipts, usually need to be cropped in order to remove large portions of the white background, which you have no interest in. You can do this using pretty much any image editor, but a specialized tool is much more suitable.

Clever Crop is a straightforward, open-source application that can detect text content within a scanned image and crop it so as to remove the background around it. It works well, even though it is still a very simple app, and it is quite intuitive.

No installation is required, as you can just launch the executable file as soon as it is downloaded. The app is very easy to deploy, so you can even use it on the go if you have to switch between several computers.

Loading an image is as simple as dragging it to the application window. Its contents will be cropped automatically, but you can modify the default threshold if you feel it is necessary.

Mainly designed to help you cut away unneeded sections from scanned receipts, Clever Crop can work with any other type of scanned document as well. Of course, it doesn’t offer a lot of customization options, but it can still do the job.

After loading an image, you can zoom in or out by moving the Scale slider in order to view everything in more detail. You can also change the default threshold to ensure all the text is within the cropping area, as well as rotate the image.

When taking everything into consideration, Clever Crop may not offer the features you find in certain commercial applications, but it is still powerful enough to be useful. It enables you to crop scanned receipts and other documents in a couple of simple steps, and it doesn’t even need to be installed beforehand.