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Re:Ask HN: Your admittedly useless side projects? by kiru_io on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:07AM (#31860541)
I wanted to "cut" multiple regions from an image.

All the tools allow to "crop" an image, but not really extract all regions.

Ended up making PhotoCutter[1]. It is totally useless for everyone except a few.

[1] https://photocutter.kiru.io/

Re:Ask HN: Your admittedly useless side projects? by klntsky on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:33AM (#31860812)
You can make it into a nice product. Just make the state save-able (including comments) and share-able by a link. Would be a good tool for designers & their customers to quickly leave some comments.
Re:Ask HN: Your admittedly useless side projects? by kiru_io on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:47AM (#31864066)
aaah, I haven't considered that! Thanks for the idea!
Re:Ask HN: Your admittedly useless side projects? by als0 on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:14AM (#31860606)
Cool site, nice one. There's potential to save a lot of time when going back and forth between cropping tools. One of my usual workflows is reading big PDFs and I want to pick out the parts that are relevant to me. I could use a highlighter, but that wouldn't filter out the rest of the document, so I typically use a screenshot tool to grab specific areas and save them as pictures. But it can only make one screenshot at a time, which is a lot of overhead.

It would be cool to enhance this site so that it takes a PDF with multiple pages and allow you to do the same for that. But that's probably a lot of work compared to uploading a single picture file!

Re:Ask HN: Your admittedly useless side projects? by kiru_io on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:46AM (#31864052)
Great idea! I will consider that in the future (could be even useful for me)
Re:Ask HN: Your admittedly useless side projects? by landmark3 on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:10AM (#31860565)
I don't need it but I like it...and sometimes that's all you need for it to become popular :)

Well done