Crop whitespace from image in PHP

Question

Is it possible to remove the whitespace surrounding an image in PHP?

NOTE: to clarify I mean something like photoshops trim feature.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Gnud's script redundantly calls imagesx and imagesy. It also iterates every pixel on every side, even when the corners overlap. This improved version eliminates redundant function calls and checks every pixel only once, granting a significant increase in speed. The function returns a status ($result['#']) equal to 2 if every pixel is the trimmed.

example();
function example(){
    $img = imagecreatefromjpeg("http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413XvF0yukL._SL500_AA280_.jpg");

    // find the trimmed image border
    $box = imageTrimBox($img);

    // copy cropped portion
    $img2 = imagecreate($box['w'], $box['h']);
    imagecopy($img2, $img, 0, 0, $box['l'], $box['t'], $box['w'], $box['h']);

    // output cropped image to the browser
    header('Content-Type: image/png');
    imagepng($img2);

    imagedestroy($img);
    imagedestroy($img2);
}



function imageTrimBox($img, $hex=null){
if (!ctype_xdigit($hex)) $hex = imagecolorat($img, 0,0);
$b_top = $b_lft = 0;
$b_rt = $w1 = $w2 = imagesx($img);
$b_btm = $h1 = $h2 = imagesy($img);

do {
    //top
    for(; $b_top < $h1; ++$b_top) {
        for($x = 0; $x < $w1; ++$x) {
            if(imagecolorat($img, $x, $b_top) != $hex) {
                break 2;
            }
        }
    }

    // stop if all pixels are trimmed
    if ($b_top == $b_btm) {
        $b_top = 0;
        $code = 2;
        break 1;
    }

    // bottom
    for(; $b_btm >= 0; --$b_btm) {
        for($x = 0; $x < $w1; ++$x) {
            if(imagecolorat($img, $x, $b_btm-1) != $hex) {
                break 2;
            }
        }
    }

    // left
    for(; $b_lft < $w1; ++$b_lft) {
        for($y = $b_top; $y <= $b_btm; ++$y) {
            if(imagecolorat($img, $b_lft, $y) != $hex) {
                break 2;
            }
        }
    }

    // right
    for(; $b_rt >= 0; --$b_rt) {
        for($y = $b_top; $y <= $b_btm; ++$y) {
            if(imagecolorat($img, $b_rt-1, $y) != $hex) {
                break 2;
            }
        }

    }

    $w2 = $b_rt - $b_lft;
    $h2 = $b_btm - $b_top;
    $code = ($w2 < $w1 || $h2 < $h1) ? 1 : 0;
} while (0);

// result codes:
// 0 = Trim Zero Pixels
// 1 = Trim Some Pixels
// 2 = Trim All Pixels
return array(
    '#'     => $code,   // result code
    'l'     => $b_lft,  // left
    't'     => $b_top,  // top
    'r'     => $b_rt,   // right
    'b'     => $b_btm,  // bottom
    'w'     => $w2,     // new width
    'h'     => $h2,     // new height
    'w1'    => $w1,     // original width
    'h1'    => $h1,     // original height
);
}