BRISS HowTo

Typical work flow

  1. Load a PDF by clicking File->Load and choose the pdf to which should be cropped.(Optional: Set the pages to exclude from merging)
  2. Now the PDF is loaded and you are shown the merged pages. A page is merged to a cluster if it has the same size and is either even or odd.
  3. Draw multiple crop rectangle by clicking+holding the left mouse button down. The content of each crop rectangle will be transformed into a distinct page in the output PDF.
  4. Start the cropping by Action->Crop. Next chose the output file name and press "Ok"

Preview

Handle crop rectangles

Command line usage

If you prefer command line and trust the basic automatic detection algorithm use it this way (can be batched!):

java -jar briss-0.0.13.jar -s [SOURCEFILE] [-d [DESTINATIONFILE]]
Example:
java -jar briss-0.0.13.jar -s dogeatdog.pdf -d dogcrop.pdf
java -jar briss-0.0.13.jar -s dogeatdog.pdf 

the second line will crop the file into

dogeatdog_cropped.pdf

Resize crop rectangles to maxium width/height

Sometimes it's necessary to make crops rectangles between merged clusters the same width/height. Therefore just

  1. Select the crop rectangles by holding down the ctrl-key and press into the crop rectangle.
  2. After you've selected all desired crop rectangles press either Action->Maximize Width or Action->Maximize Height