How to crop an image from AVCapture to a rect seen on the display

Question

This is driving me crazy because I can\'t get it to work. I have the following scenario:

I\'m using an AVCaptureSession and an AVCaptureVideoPreviewLa

Answer 1

I've solved this problem by using metadataOutputRectOfInterestForRect function.

It works with any orientation.

[_stillImageOutput captureStillImageAsynchronouslyFromConnection:stillImageConnection
                                               completionHandler:^(CMSampleBufferRef imageDataSampleBuffer, NSError *error)
 {
     if (error)
     {
         [_delegate cameraView:self error:@"Take picture failed"];
     }
     else
     {

         NSData *jpegData = [AVCaptureStillImageOutput jpegStillImageNSDataRepresentation:imageDataSampleBuffer];
         UIImage *takenImage = [UIImage imageWithData:jpegData];

         CGRect outputRect = [_previewLayer metadataOutputRectOfInterestForRect:_previewLayer.bounds];
         CGImageRef takenCGImage = takenImage.CGImage;
         size_t width = CGImageGetWidth(takenCGImage);
         size_t height = CGImageGetHeight(takenCGImage);
         CGRect cropRect = CGRectMake(outputRect.origin.x * width, outputRect.origin.y * height, outputRect.size.width * width, outputRect.size.height * height);

         CGImageRef cropCGImage = CGImageCreateWithImageInRect(takenCGImage, cropRect);
         takenImage = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:cropCGImage scale:1 orientation:takenImage.imageOrientation];
         CGImageRelease(cropCGImage);

     }
 }
 ];

The takenImage is still imageOrientation dependent image. You can delete orientation information for further image processing.

UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(takenImage.size);
[takenImage drawAtPoint:CGPointZero];
takenImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();